From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 10:49:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13336 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13328 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02221; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:48:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwang-Soo Kim cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0 - supports multicast? In-Reply-To: <199710152106.RAA03288@handel.cs.unc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Kwang-Soo Kim wrote: > I tried to get multicast data on a freeBSD machine runs 2.2.2 without > luck. It is using ed0 driver and has an IBM ethernet card. > Since the manual of the card claims that it supports multicast, I > suspect ed0 driver. If ed0 really supports multicast, what would be the > problem? The IBM card is really an NE2000 SMC compatible? I know for a fact that the ed0 driver is multicast-capable. It's slower than a PCI card but it works. I upgraded to a de0-supported card and my average frame rate up 1 or 2 fps and the system didn't seem as sluggish. > My collegue tested the same kernel (same rc.conf) on another machine > which has 3c590 adapter and it worked well... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major