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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:37:44 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Sonia Sachs <ssachs@george.lbl.gov>
Subject:   Re: patch for 2.1.0 
Message-ID:  <199607222237.PAA04334@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:29:23 PDT." <199607222229.PAA25374@george.lbl.gov> 

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Say whats the scoop on the ep driver and ip multicast for 2.1?

Would it be easier to just upgrade to 2.2?

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Sonia Sachs :
> 
> Hi Amancio,
> 
> I just installed sdr/vic/vat that I downloaded from your
> page: thank you!
> 
> I tried to run sdr, but I ran into a problem:
> 	setsockopt - IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP: Can't assign requested address
> 	Network is unreachable
> 	setsockopt - IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP: Can't assign requested address
> I don't know what this problem is, so I am looking everywhere
> for some clue.
> I found a note in your page about the fact that some ethernet
> cards do not support multicast. I just checked mine (it is a 3C, I am
> not sure if it is 509), and it gives me:
> 	ep0: flags=4863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2> mtu 1500
>         inet 131.243.48.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 131.243.48.255
> so, it doesn't appear that multicast is supported. 
> 
> Can you tell me where the patch for the ep driver is so that
> multicast will be supported? I am novice at freebsd, so I
> would appreciate if you gave all information possible on
> how to install the patch.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Sonia





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