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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:58:35 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Jun-ichiro Itoh <itojun@csl.sony.co.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/3048: multicast support necessery in some drivers. 
Message-ID:  <97Mar23.005846pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Mar 97 06:10:03 PST." <199703221410.GAA25631@freefall.freebsd.org>
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This patch will always keep the card in promiscuous mode.  There is
always at least one group membership (224.0.0.1) on any given interface.

Doesn't FIL_GROUP mean "receive multicasts"?  I was under the impression
that the code in the driver didn't keep track of multicast membership
because 3com cards don't have multicast group filters; their level of
multicast granularity is "on" or "off".  (This dates back from the days
of VME boards for Sun3's... and they still haven't learned... sigh)

  Bill
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