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Ido Schimmel
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In the upcoming VXLAN MDB implementation, the 0.0.0.0 and :: MDB entries will act as catchall entries for unregistered IP multicast traffic in a similar fashion to the 00:00:00:00:00:00 VXLAN FDB entry that is used to transmit BUM traffic. In deployments where inter-subnet multicast forwarding is used, not all the VTEPs in a tenant domain are members in all the broadcast domains. It is therefore advantageous to transmit BULL (broadcast, unknown unicast and link-local multicast) and unregistered IP multicast traffic on different tunnels. If the same tunnel was used, a VTEP only interested in IP multicast traffic would also pull all the BULL traffic and drop it as it is not a member in the originating broadcast domain [1]. Prepare for this change by allowing the 0.0.0.0 group address in the common rtnetlink MDB code and forbid it in the bridge driver. A similar change is not needed for IPv6 because the common code only validates that the group address is not the all-nodes address. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-irb-mcast#section-2.6 Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.