In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > That doesn't quite answer my question of what the > "Special Multicast Table for MAC addresses of the form 0x01-00-5E-00-00-XX" > means (below). Do you (or anyone else) have any info on this?
Those are MAC addresses assigned for routing and topology discovery. See RFC 1112 and http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses . Apparently, the hw designers thought it was worth hashing them separately from other multicast addresses. -Dale - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html