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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2006 03:59:19 -0600
From:      Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
To:        "Sten Spans" <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Peer <mpeer@koce.org>
Subject:   Re: Multicast does not work with Dell 2950 with Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T
Message-ID:  <2fd864e0611080159s46a4f425s9edaf3ceee0994eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611080856470.8914@zaphod.blinkenlights.nl>
References:  <0816728210329F46A07F3C57CF00E32D071AF3@KOCEW2KSV13.koce-ad.int.koce.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611080856470.8914@zaphod.blinkenlights.nl>

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On 11/8/06, Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Michael Peer wrote:
>
> > Hope anyone can help?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a new Dell 2950 with the Broadcom NetXtreme II NIC on board and
> > seeing the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > GB 0 interface is listed as bce1, and GB 1 is listed as bce1.  Do not
> > see that with older dells that use em0, and em1 on-board NIC,
> >
> > but this is not my problem
> >
> >
> >
> > I am using the box as router, with quagga ospf loaded.  It does not see
> > the OSPF multicast traffic of my other routers on network.
>
> I've seen similar problems with 1550 and 1650, but with ipv6 addrs.
> The simple solution is 'ifconfig bce0 promisc'.
>
>
An interface that's not configured for promiscuous operation will drop
packets that are not destined for it. Multicast can get a little odd in that
respect.

In the case of bge/bce/bfe cards, I tend to manually set
everything.likethat, because of the odd issues with the cards.

--- Harrison Grundy



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