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    bridge: Use IPv6 link-local address for multicast listener queries · fe29ec41
    Linus Lüssing authored
    
    
    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: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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