Hi,

I wanted to add the remaining pieces for batman-adv to support IPv4 multicast groups in bridged setups, next to the IPv6 support already in place. For which we'd need MRD support. So once more I'd tap into the bridge for this information from batman-adv.

Then I realized again that the bridge keeps track of the IGMP/MLD querier per protocol family but not for the multicast router ports. For the latter we only have one list right now. For batman-adv we have the multicast router flags and logic already separate though.

I started separating the router list for IPv4 and IPv6 in the bridge, but it seems there are already external users for the protocol family unaware router list right now: netlink and switchdev. Now I'm wondering:

A) For netlink:

Would it be fine to just add a MDBA_ROUTER_PATTR_FAMILY with either the value PF_INET or PF_INET6? The downside would be that a userspace application which does not know this new attribute yet would potentially see or list a duplicate.

Another option would be to add two separate attributes: MDBA_ROUTER_PATTR_{INET,INET6}. Which looks a bit more clumsy and and inflexible to me. But would have a better compatiblity when userspace requests a router ports dump. For events there'd still be the same issue of duplicates though, as IPv4 and IPv6 routers might appear or disappear asynchronously.

B) For switchdev:

I'm not that familiar with switchdev. Should it generally be possible to separate the protocol family here? Or would it be better to add a few more lines to the bridge code to only call switchdev_port_attr_set() when transitioning between v4-rtr, v6-rtr: (off, off) <=> (on, on) | (on, off) | (off, on)? At least for a start, maybe?

C)

Or am I missing something in the MRD RFC (RFC4286) which implies that a Multicast router Advertisement should be interpreted across protocol families?

Any ideas what might be the best way to tackle this?

Regards, Linus