Richard Braun, le Wed 22 Feb 2006 19:27:24 +0100, a écrit :
> There are,
> however, multicast filters that can be written to the NICs, up to a
> fixed limit, and once there are too many filters, the driver sets
> promiscuous mode. Should those filters be setup at driver init to accept
> multicast, or only when a userland application requests it (as it
> proposed in Gianluca Guida's message) ?

The natural way (and what Linux does) is when a userland application
requests it only.

Regards,
Samuel


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