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Re: manual networking configuration warning


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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