Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast Message-ID: <199904141727.NAA09373@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> References: <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr> <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com>
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<<On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:04:03 -0600, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> 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
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