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Re: freebsd and mulitcast addresses
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Stefan Rosinger <a_jedi_night4u at gmx dot at>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:29:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] freebsd and mulitcast addresses
- References: <004301c51459$89aa4750$0a00a8c0@rosinger>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:58:44PM +0100, Stefan Rosinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Could the FreeBSD stack get problems with Multicast packets from Windows XP
> if not enabled(not supported by the ethernet driver)?
If you are trying to use IPv6 then yes it will get confused when it
cannot receive multicast frames. But i guess you are not using
IPv6. With plain old IPv4 it should not be a problem.
> How could mulitcast support could be added to a device driver if the device
> support it?
Take a look at a driver that does support multicast and use it as a
template.
Andrew
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