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Re: manual networking configuration warning
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "Brad Petrus (RTC)" <brad dot petrus at rtc dot bosch dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:45:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] manual networking configuration warning
- References: <427A4CAE.1080203@rtc.bosch.com>
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:41 -0400, Brad Petrus (RTC) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to manually configure a network interface, eth0, and am
> getting the following warning:
> / [eth_drv_ioctl] Warning: Driver can't set multi-cast mode
> /
> Below is the sequence of ioctl() calls I am using together with the
> output from show_network_tables() in italics.
>
> The warning occurs each time I try to set the IP address for the
> interface. Am I missing something
> or is this just some warning that can be ignored?
As long as you don't care about multicast support (including IPv6), this
can safely be ignored.
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