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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: i386/3048: multicast support in some drivers
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The following reply was made to PR i386/3048; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/3048: multicast support in some drivers
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:13:32 PST

 To settle the issue of whether or not the Etherlink cards
 support multicast group filters, I quote from the EtherLink
 III Paralell Tasking ISA, EISA, Micro Channel, and PCMCIA
 Adapter Drivers Technical Reference:
 
 
 At power-up, the Receive filter defaults to zero and must be
 set with this command before any packets can be received.
 Enabling group address reception implies broadcast reception.
 There is no individual filtering of group/multicast
 addresses. Promiscuous mode implies all others.
 
 
 Thus, the comment in the if_ep.c driver is a little misleading;
 it's the card that doesn't support individual group filters.
 
   Bill