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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:22:41 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Emulating ALLMULTI on broken hardware
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I think NetBSD may have a more general solution to the problem of handling
the emulation of ALLMULTI on hardware which doesn't support it (such as
the PRISM2 wireless cards).

Discussion of M_PROMISC (new mbuf flag) here:
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2003/03/19/0001.html

Perhaps M_PROMISC is a better way of flagging an incoming mbuf as not
being for us when running in IFF_PPROMISC? Or an mbuf tag? Ideas?

BMS