IGMP Unsolicited report interval patches
From: William Manley <hidden>
Date: 2013-08-06 18:04:00
4th version of the patches. The significant changes since last review are: 1. there is a new patch (2/3) as requested by Hannes. 2. the third patch now uses IN_DEV_CONF_GET in place of IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL. This means that the unsolicited report interval can now be configured on an interface-by-interface basis as I'd originally intended but messed up in the implementation. One concern I have now is that with this latest patch-set is that while /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/igmp... will now have an effect /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/igmp... will not. I'm not sure how to resolve this. One option would be to have a special value of -1 to mean use the default so I could implement fall-back semantics. A down-side of this approach is that it makes the meaning of the knobs less clear for someone browsing through the filesystem. Another option would be to remove the knob from all/ entirely, although I'm not sure how to do this. Suggestions are very much welcome :) Thanks Will