From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 14 10:29:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816D3157FF for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA09373; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199904141727.NAA09373@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Wes Peters Cc: Ollivier Robert , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast In-Reply-To: <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> References: <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr> <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > It depends on the level of support the chipset has for multicast. > Intel chips in general kind of suck at this. Apparently they haven't > even fixed it in the EEPro/100 chipset yet. > I haven't looked at the 3c9xx series, but hope they're a bit better > than Intel. 3Com NICs have historically been crap. Several of them had a one-bit multicast filter. Intel's have always had good support for multicast (but unlike DEC NICs they don't do perfect filtering). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message