From: Julien Gomes <jul...@arista.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:44:13 -0700
> Currently, all ipmr/ip6mr cache reports are sent through the
> mroute/mroute6 socket only.
> This forces the use of a single socket for mroute programming, cache
> reports and, regarding ipmr, IGMP messages without Router Alert option
> reception.
>
> The present patches are aiming to send Netlink notifications in addition
> to the existing igmpmsg/mrt6msg to give user programs a way to handle
> cache reports in parallel with multiple sockets other than the
> mroute/mroute6 socket.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Changed attributes naming from {IPMRA,IP6MRA}_CACHEREPORTA_* to
> {IPMRA,IP6MRA}_CREPORT_*
> - Improved packet data copy to handle non-linear packets in
> ipmr/ip6mr cache report Netlink notification creation
> - Added two rtnetlink groups with restricted-binding
> - Changed cache report notified groups from RTNL_{IPV4,IPV6}_MROUTE to
> the new restricted groups in ipmr/ip6mr
Please address Nikolay's feedback about interface number limits etc.
Thanks.
