[patch net-next 8/8] switchdev: Adding IGMP snooping documentation
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: 2016-01-10 13:07:42
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Elad Raz <redacted> Signed-off-by: Elad Raz <redacted> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted> --- Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
index 9199413..fad6313 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt@@ -304,8 +304,12 @@ certain netdevs from flooding unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. IGMP Snooping ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -XXX: complete this section - +In order to support IGMP snooping, the port netdevs should trap to the bridge +driver all IGMP join and leave messages. +The bridge multicast module will notify port netdevs on every multicast group +changed whether it is static configured or dynamically joined/leave. +The hardware implementation should be forwarding all registered multicast +traffic groups only to the configured ports. L3 Routing Offload ------------------
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