Commit 88df8ef5 authored Jan 03, 2006 by Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller Jan 03, 2006

[NET]: Don't exclude broadcast addresses from is_multicast_ether_addr()



The check for multicast shouldn't exclude broadcast type addresses.
This reverts the incorrect change done in 2.6.13.

The broadcast address is a multicast address and should be excluded
from being a valid_ether_address for use in bridging or device address.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent cd8787ab

include/linux/etherdevice.h

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
		* @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
		*
		* Return true if the address is a multicast address.
		* By definition the broadcast address is also a multicast address.
		*/
		static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
		{
		return ((addr[0] != 0xff) && (0x01 & addr[0]));
		return (0x01 & addr[0]);
		}

		/**