Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2] bonding: replicate IGMP traffic in activebackup mode

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:58:39 -0400

John W. Linville wrote:
> Replicate IGMP frames across all slaves in activebackup mode. This
> ensures fail-over is rapid for multicast traffic as well. Otherwise,
> multicast traffic will be lost until the next IGMP membership report
> poll timeout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email-masked]>
> ---
> This is conceptually similar to the treatment of IGMP traffic in
> bond_alb_xmit. In that case, IGMP traffic transmitted on any slave
> is re-routed to the active slave in order to ensure that multicast
> traffic continues to be directed to the active receiver.
> 
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied.  For future patches, please

* don't include description following the signed-off-by line

* if you are willing to special-case me, I actually don't like seeing a 
diffstat; I have to manually remove it before applying