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Re: Anybody doing IP multicast?
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:41:05PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Is anybody aware of any reasons it can't work? (e.g. Missing
> > pieces Ethernet driver API or something like that...)
>
> Well for the i82559, there is no API call to set up the
> multicast address list. Maybe this is not actually needed. You
> could put the device into promisc mode and receive everything,
> and then dump whats not needed. Alternativly, the device may
> actually receive multicast MAC addresses already and you just
> have to filter out whats interesting?
So, it sounds like the chances of it working as-is with stock
ethernet drivers are pretty slim.
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Grant Edwards
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