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    bridge: Add multicast_querier toggle and disable queries by default · c5c23260
    Herbert Xu authored
    
    
    Sending general queries was implemented as an optimisation to speed
    up convergence on start-up.  In order to prevent interference with
    multicast routers a zero source address has to be used.
    
    Unfortunately these packets appear to cause some multicast-aware
    switches to misbehave, e.g., by disrupting multicast packets to us.
    
    Since the multicast snooping feature still functions without sending
    our own queries, this patch will change the default to not send
    queries.
    
    For those that need queries in order to speed up convergence on start-up,
    a toggle is provided to restore the previous behaviour.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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