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  • Mike Manning's avatar
    bridge: add per-port broadcast flood flag · 99f906e9
    Mike Manning authored Apr 26, 2017
    Support for l2 multicast flood control was added in commit b6cb5ac8
    
    
    ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag"). It allows broadcast
    as it was introduced specifically for unknown multicast flood control.
    But as broadcast is a special case of multicast, this may also need to
    be disabled. For this purpose, introduce a flag to disable the flooding
    of received l2 broadcasts. This approach is backwards compatible and
    provides flexibility in filtering for the desired packet types.
    
    Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    99f906e9