The MLD implementation did not follow the RFC correctly when it is the Querier. The Querier should use a general query and get query messages from all members of all groups. This would be driven by a single timer per sub-nset since all groups are queried at once. Instead, the design used a Multicast Address Specific Query with one timer per group and ignores groups that we are not members of.
Similary, the MLDv1 compatibility timer should be a single, separate timer, not a per-group timer.
net/mld: Group may be NULL when sending a general query
net/mld: More updates from comparison with roughly leveraged code and the MDL RFCs 2710 and 3810.
net/mld: More updated from comparison with roughly leveraged code and the MDL RFCs 2710 and 3810.
net/mld: Beginning comparison with roughly leveraged code and the MDL RFCs 2710 and 3810.
net/mld: The MLD logic now compiles and is much less toxic. It still is not a proper MLD implementation: (1) It is basically a port of IGMP, tweaked to work with IPv6 and ICMPv6 MLD messages, (2) it needs a proper analysis and comparison with RFC 3810, and (3) it is completely untested. For this reason, it will remain EXPERIMENTAL for some time.
net/mld: Add some missing macros, more fixes related to IPv6 vs IPv4 types,
net/mld: More compilation cleaning. Most fixups for IPv6 vs IPv4 types.
net/mld: Hook crudely converted .c files into build system and resolve a few of the many, many compilation/design problems.
net/mld: Add support for MLD statistics.
net/mld: Hook in MLD poll and packet transmission logic.
net/mld: Change references to IPv4 definitions to IPv6 definitions; Remove mld_input() since MLD piggybacks on ICMPv6 input. Add functions to catch MLD messages dispatched by ICMPv6 input logic.
net/mld: As a starting point, copy all net/igmp/*.c files to net/mld/. and change all occurrences of igmp (or IGMP) to mld (or MLD).
net/mld: More compilation cleaning. Most fixups for IPv6 vs IPv4 types.
net/mld: Hook crudely converted .c files into build system and resolve a few of the many, many compilation/design problems.
net/mld: Add support for MLD statistics.
net/mld: Hook in MLD poll and packet transmission logic.
net/mld: Change references to IPv4 definitions to IPv6 definitions; Remove mld_input() since MLD piggybacks on ICMPv6 input. Add functions to catch MLD messages dispatched by ICMPv6 input logic.
net/mld: As a starting point, copy all net/igmp/*.c files to net/mld/. and change all occurrences of igmp (or IGMP) to mld (or MLD).
Gregory Nutt