Re: [PATCH 2/2] bridge: Use IPv6 link-local address for multicast listener queries

From: Linus Lüssing <redacted>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:17:52 +0100

Currently the bridge multicast snooping feature periodically issues
IPv6 general multicast listener queries to sense the absence of a
listener.

For this, it uses :: as its source address - however RFC 2710 requires:
"To be valid, the Query message MUST come from a link-local IPv6 Source
Address". Current Linux kernel versions seem to follow this requirement
and ignore our bogus MLD queries.

With this commit a link local address from the bridge interface is being
used to issue the MLD query, resulting in other Linux devices which are
multicast listeners in the network to respond with a MLD response (which
was not the case before).

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <redacted>

Applied.