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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: ep driver
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:34:29 +0600 (GMT+0600)
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> 
> In message <199507260832.OAA06959@hq.icb.chel.su> you write:
> >- has multicast support
> 
> If nobody is going to figure out how to program the multicast filters,
> then this diff might as well be something like
> 
> >! 	case SIOCADDMULTI:
> >! 	case SIOCDELMULTI:
> >! 	    error=0;
> >! 	    break;
> 
> and you can save the overhead of calling epinit().

Agreed. But are you sure that we can drop the calls of ether_addmulti()
and ether_delmulti() too ? I think we can't because it does the mapping
between IP and Ethernet multicast addresses. Or doesn't ?

		Serge Babkin

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