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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:52:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testing SIOCADDMULTI?
Message-ID:  <201302010952.26859.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <965B76D3-8BE8-4DA1-8A48-D22238490D03@kientzle.com>
References:  <AE65AFB2-A767-4457-B30A-007956A7D216@freebsd.org> <201301281109.24879.jhb@freebsd.org> <965B76D3-8BE8-4DA1-8A48-D22238490D03@kientzle.com>

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On Friday, February 01, 2013 1:23:26 am Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >> Would still appreciate any suggestions for how to test these.
> > 
> > You can write a simple app to listen for UDP packets and have it join a 
> > multicast group and have another machine on the same network write a packet to 
> > the multicast group.
> 
> I tried this first, but  the test program worked fine even
> without ADDMULTI/DELMULTI support.   Watching
> tcpdump -e, it appears that IP4 multicast UDP uses
> broadcast at the Ethernet layer.

Were you running tcpdump?  You have to use tcpdump -p to avoid putting
the chip into promiscuous mode if so (promiscious causes the NIC to
receive all multicast regardless of the filters assuming that your
driver supports it correctly).

-- 
John Baldwin



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