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  1. May 20, 2016
    • Linus Lüssing's avatar
      ebtables-segment-mld: Segment IGMP/MLD domain · 4199b216
      Linus Lüssing authored
      
      This patch adds a new gluon-ebtables package to filter IGMP/MLD messages
      via ebtables.
      
      For one thing this reduces multicast overhead: About one third of all
      ICMPv6 multicast traffic in Lübeck or Hamburg is MLD.
      
      Furthermore it removes a potential Distributed Denial-of-Service vector
      (see Gluon ticket #553).
      
      Finally, it is a prerequisite for enabling bridge multicast snooping in
      a decentral and robust fashion.
      
      Note that IGMP/MLD are filtered for multicast traffic coming from
      the mesh, too (new MULTICAST_IN), as unfortunately there seem to
      be other queriers somewhere in the mesh at least for Freifunk
      Lübeck. Also adding these rules to be prepared to anyone intentionally
      or unintentionally disabling these filters on his/her node.
      
      Node operators not running Gluon (for instance gateway nodes) should
      make sure to either enable multicast_router towards bat0 or disable
      multicast snooping entirely if they have a bridge on top of bat0.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
      4199b216
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