Michal,
> My question/suggestion:
> Would it feasible to drop the relevant entries from sockets' multicast
> membership lists on the interface
> delete?
Yes, I think this is needed. The original BSD code didn't have
this
problem because it didn't support removal of a device. I wondered
On Wed, 2006-23-08 at 15:29 +0200, Michal Růžička wrote:
> No need to rmmod anything, just think of ppp or gre interfaces which come
> and go
> without any modules loading/unloading. But yes, the rmmod would probably be
> needed in case of, for example, an ethernet device.
>
Ok - Same effect. i
You should be able to "fix it" in the kernel by listening to events of
the interface/device disappearing.
Interesting, I've thought that it would have to be done explicitly by the
interface
cleanup code, this approach looks promising to me.
By "disappearing" i think you meant
the netdevic
On Wed, 2006-23-08 at 13:08 +0200, Michal Ruzicka wrote:
> My question/suggestion:
> Would it feasible to drop the relevant entries from sockets' multicast
> membership lists on the interface
> delete? Yes, I do realize it would require to walk through a number of
> sockets to see if there is an
Hello there,
I've got the following question/suggestion:
The situation today:
When an interface is deleted and there happen to have been some multicast
groups joined on it only
the interface's list of multicast meberships is deleted. The sockets through
which the groups
were joined and more imp
