[LiSA-Devel] [Bridge + 8021q] IGMP

[Ionut Nicu]

Hi Claudiu,

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 15:54 +0300, Claudiu Ghioc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was doing some research on IGMP support with the "bridge" module.
> The documentation says that you can control the "multicast_snooping"
> and "multicast_router" via sysfs
> (/sys/devices/virtual/net/brN/bridge). I tried on my laptop (
> 3.5.0-17) and it works, but it doesn't work on our LiSA virtual
> machine (2.6.32):
> " echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/net/vlan2/bridge/multicast_snooping
> bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory"
> 
> So I searched the bridge implementation for 2.6.32 on LXR and there is
> no support for multicast. For the 3.5.0 version, multicast is
> supported. How do we proceed now?

Probably you should try to build the latest kernel release and test the
lisa userspace code (with bridge + 8021q middleware) on top of that. The
only reason for keeping a 2.6.32 kernel was that none of us took the
time to port the patch to a newer kernel version.

Ionut.