[Live-devel] multicast & linux information

2013-10-26 Thread Piers Hawksley
>> Attached is the changes I made to Linux 2.6.29 to port the IP_MULTICAST_ALL >> socket option from 2.6.31. > Out of curiosity - why didn't you just use the 2.6.31 kernel? (It presumably > has other fixes/improvements that you would find useful.) The ARM SOC that I'm developing for was provide

Re: [Live-devel] multicast & linux information

2013-10-25 Thread Ross Finlayson
> Attached is the changes I made to Linux 2.6.29 to port the IP_MULTICAST_ALL > socket option from 2.6.31. Out of curiosity - why didn't you just use the 2.6.31 kernel? (It presumably has other fixes/improvements that you would find useful.) Ross.

Re: [Live-devel] multicast & linux information

2013-10-25 Thread Piers Hawksley
>> It seems that kernel maintainers chose to keep the backward compatibility with a default that cause receiving data from all multicast groups and not only from joined multicast group. >> But they add since kernel 2.6.31 an option that allow to avoid this. > That's good to hear. (I guess this

Re: [Live-devel] multicast & linux information

2013-10-03 Thread Ross Finlayson
> It seems that kernel maintainers chose to keep the backward compatibility > with a default that cause receiving data from all multicast groups and not > only from joined multicast group. > But they add since kernel 2.6.31 an option that allow to avoid this. That's good to hear. (I guess this

[Live-devel] multicast & linux information

2013-10-03 Thread PROMONET Michel
Hi Ross, We discussed several times about this subject and I would like to share what I understood from exchanges with RedHat support. It seems that kernel maintainers chose to keep the backward compatibility with a default that cause receiving data from all multicast groups and not