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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: multicasting in freebsd
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:37:51 +0600 (ESD)
Cc: whchoi%cosmos.kaist.ac.kr@nuri.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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