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    bridge: adhere to querier election mechanism specified by RFCs · dc4eb53a
    Linus Lüssing authored
    MLDv1 (RFC2710 section 6), MLDv2 (RFC3810 section 7.6.2), IGMPv2
    (RFC2236 section 3) and IGMPv3 (RFC3376 section 6.6.2) specify that the
    querier with lowest source address shall become the selected
    querier.
    
    So far the bridge stopped its querier as soon as it heard another
    querier regardless of its source address. This results in the "wrong"
    querier potentially becoming the active querier or a potential,
    unnecessary querying delay.
    
    With this patch the bridge memorizes the source address of the currently
    selected querier and ignores queries from queriers with a higher source
    address than the currently selected one. This slight optimization is
    supposed to make it more RFC compliant (but is rather uncritical and
    therefore probably not necessary to be queued for stable kernels).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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