From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 14 10:52: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ED915400 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id KAA07300; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA29030; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:49:30 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id LAA17803; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:44:47 -0600 Message-ID: <3714D40F.B70B4C23@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:44:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast References: <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr> <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> <19990414080034.A19286@keltia.freenix.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Wes Peters: > > It depends on the level of support the chipset has for multicast. > > Well, it works under NT with IPv6 so there must be some kind of support. It > is only that the driver doesn't support it. Oh yes, you can do it, but it's not easy. I've worked on support for multicast on intel 586 and 596 chips on the VxWorks realtime system, but it's ugly. IIRC, the chip treats multicast packets like broadcast and hands all the packets to the driver to figure out, because it doesn't have enough ethernet multicast registration slots on the chip to do auto-filtering. This is being filtered through 3 or 4-year old memories, so take it with a grain of salt. ;^) > > I haven't looked at the 3c9xx series, but hope they're a bit better > > than Intel. > > They seem to work w/o problem with the nice xl driver. Much better, isn't it? Now if I could just get my blasted 3c905*B* to work as well as the 905s. Sigh. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message