ip: enable configuring multicast group autojoin
Joining multicast group on ethernet level via "ip maddr" command would
not work if we have an Ethernet switch that does igmp snooping since
the switch would not replicate multicast packets on ports that did not
have IGMP reports for the multicast addresses.
Linux vxlan interfaces created via "ip link add vxlan" have the group option
that enables then to do the required join.
By extending ip address command with option "autojoin" we can get similar
functionality for openvswitch vxlan interfaces as well as other tunneling
mechanisms that need to receive multicast traffic.
example:
ip address add 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5 autojoin
ip address del 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5
diff --git a/ip/ipaddress.c b/ip/ipaddress.c
index 99a6ab5..e582da0 100644
--- a/ip/ipaddress.c
+++ b/ip/ipaddress.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
fprintf(stderr, " [-]tentative | [-]deprecated | [-]dadfailed | temporary |\n");
fprintf(stderr, " CONFFLAG-LIST ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "CONFFLAG-LIST := [ CONFFLAG-LIST ] CONFFLAG\n");
- fprintf(stderr, "CONFFLAG := [ home | nodad | mngtmpaddr | noprefixroute ]\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "CONFFLAG := [ home | nodad | mngtmpaddr | noprefixroute | autojoin ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "LIFETIME := [ valid_lft LFT ] [ preferred_lft LFT ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "LFT := forever | SECONDS\n");
@@ -915,6 +915,10 @@
ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE;
fprintf(fp, "noprefixroute ");
}
+ if (ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) {
+ ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN;
+ fprintf(fp, "autojoin ");
+ }
if (!(ifa_flags & IFA_F_PERMANENT)) {
fprintf(fp, "dynamic ");
} else
@@ -1354,6 +1358,9 @@
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "noprefixroute") == 0) {
filter.flags |= IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE;
filter.flagmask |= IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE;
+ } else if (strcmp(*argv, "autojoin") == 0) {
+ filter.flags |= IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN;
+ filter.flagmask |= IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN;
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "dadfailed") == 0) {
filter.flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
filter.flagmask |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
@@ -1558,6 +1565,16 @@
return 0;
}
+static bool ipaddr_is_multicast(inet_prefix *a)
+{
+ if (a->family == AF_INET)
+ return IN_MULTICAST(ntohl(a->data[0]));
+ else if (a->family == AF_INET6)
+ return IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST(a->data);
+ else
+ return false;
+}
+
static int ipaddr_modify(int cmd, int flags, int argc, char **argv)
{
struct {
@@ -1665,6 +1682,8 @@
ifa_flags |= IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR;
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "noprefixroute") == 0) {
ifa_flags |= IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE;
+ } else if (strcmp(*argv, "autojoin") == 0) {
+ ifa_flags |= IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN;
} else {
if (strcmp(*argv, "local") == 0) {
NEXT_ARG();
@@ -1755,6 +1774,11 @@
sizeof(cinfo));
}
+ if ((ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) && !ipaddr_is_multicast(&lcl)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "autojoin needs multicast address\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if (rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, 0, 0, NULL) < 0)
return -2;