Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:37:51 +0600 (ESD) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: whchoi%cosmos.kaist.ac.kr@nuri.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multicasting in freebsd Message-ID: <199605071137.RAA06172@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199605070856.BAA00303@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at May 7, 96 01:56:47 am
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> > > > Hello, Amancio! > > > > We've just received Matrox clones from Omnimedia, and we're trying > > to replace our multicast station with a PC running freebsd. > > > > The PC is equipped with a 3C509 card, but the problem we now face is > > that multicasting is not enabled for the ethernet interface. I > > cannot find anything wrong in the configuration. when i asked > > for help to the freebsd group, someone replied multicasting is > > not supported on 3c509. but i don't think his answer makes sense. > > how could (device independent) multicasting will not work on any > > specific ethernet hardware? Perhaps the ep driver in 2.1 does not support multicast. Driver from -stable must do it (and be enough easily installable into 2.1). -SB
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