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ipv6: Add sockopt IPV6_MULTICAST_ALL analogue to IP_MULTICAST_ALL

The socket option will be enabled by default to ensure current behaviour is not changed. This is the same for the IPv4 version. A socket bound to in6addr_any and a specific port will receive all traffic on that port. Analogue to IP_MULTICAST_ALL, disable this behaviour, if one or more multicast groups were joined (using said socket) and only pass on multicast traffic from groups, which were explicitly joined via this socket. Without this option disabled a socket (system even) joined to multiple multicast groups is very hard to get right. Filtering by destination address has to take place in user space to avoid receiving multicast traffic from other multicast groups, which might have traffic on the same port. The extension of the IP_MULTICAST_ALL socketoption to just apply to ipv6, too, is not done to avoid changing the behaviour of current applications.

Andre Naujoks committed 8 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/in6.h+1−0
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ struct in6_flowlabel_req { · 176 unmodified lines
177177 #define IPV6_V6ONLY 26
178178 #define IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST 27
179179 #define IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST 28
180+#define IPV6_MULTICAST_ALL 29
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181182 /* IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER values */
182183 #define IPV6_PMTUDISC_DONT 0