Re: Multicast support with Linux Ethernet drivers

2006-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
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,

Re: Multicast support with Linux Ethernet drivers

2006-02-23 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi, There's no a solution still, but it should be quite easy to find one. The problem is that the Mach's glue doesn't handle at the moment the multicast functionality. Your solution should be then to hack the both Mach's device interface and it's linux emulation glue to use advanced device functio

Re: Multicast support with Linux Ethernet drivers

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Braun
Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 09:26 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Ethernet multicast adresses can be recognized by the 01:00:00:00:00:00 > bit that is set. The ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff broadcast address is just a > special multicast address (i.e. everybody should listen to it). Thanks but that's not

Re: Multicast support with Linux Ethernet drivers

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Braun
Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 18:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > IIRC, multicast support at driver level is quite crappy :) > > Boards are usually able to subscribe to a few multicast groups only, if > more are needed, then promiscuous mode is needed. I don't think the notion of multicast g