Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:40:43 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Alex Hoff <ahoff@sandvine.com> Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multicast stats and bridging Message-ID: <20031119214043.GB80768@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701D9B49E@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701D9B49E@mail.sandvine.com>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Alex Hoff wrote: > What is the desired behavior of a multicast(and broadcast) pkt traveling > through a bridge? Change it to count it going in *and* out? Or is there some > reason, that I dont know about, for the current stat counting heuristics? The bridge driver doesn't look at the packet destinations after the bdg_forward() call to BDG_STAT(), but it does in bridge_in(). Question is, why would you want to count bridged packets by their class of destination twice? BMS
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