Multicast stats and bridging

[Bruce M Simpson]

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