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Commit d757efcf authored by Michael Braun's avatar Michael Braun Committed by Vidyullatha Kanchanapally
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cfg80211: configure multicast to unicast for AP interfaces



Add the ability to configure if an AP (and associated VLANs) will
do multicast-to-unicast conversion for ARP, IPv4 and IPv6 frames
(possibly within 802.1Q). If enabled, such frames are to be sent
to each station separately, with the DA replaced by their own MAC
address rather than the group address.

Note that this may break certain expectations of the receiver,
such as the ability to drop unicast IP packets received within
multicast L2 frames, or the ability to not send ICMP destination
unreachable messages for packets received in L2 multicast (which
is required, but the receiver can't tell the difference if this
new option is enabled.)

This also doesn't implement the 802.11 DMS (directed multicast
service).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>
[fix disabling, add better documentation & commit message]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Git-commit: ce0ce13a1c89ff8b94b7f8fb32eb4c43e111c82e
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next.git


CRs-Fixed: 1097836
Change-Id: Ib310bd99b1f4df448ee82e27657e6f298e74af50
[vidyullatha@codeaurora.org: backport to kernel 4.9 - Fix conflicts]
Signed-off-by: default avatarVidyullatha Kanchanapally <vidyullatha@codeaurora.org>
parent c9a6362c
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