Re: Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Speaking of which, I'd really like to see bridge support getting added to > all new NIC drivers from now on. However, the current bridge interface > leaves something to be desired... hopefully things will improve if someone finds the time to extend ether_input() as suggested by archie Cobbs an

Re: Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-23 Thread Archie Cobbs
Robert Watson writes: > > You should go promiscuous to multicast. If the card doesn't support > > that, you should go fully promiscuous and drop unicasts that aren't > > to you. (Make sure you don't block packets that bpf is going to > > want to see). > > Also, if you want bridging support, you

Re: Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bill Fenner wrote: > >What should I do when I see ALLMULTI? > > You should go promiscuous to multicast. If the card doesn't support > that, you should go fully promiscuous and drop unicasts that aren't > to you. (Make sure you don't block packets that bpf is going to > wan

Re: Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-21 Thread Bill Fenner
>What should I do when I see ALLMULTI? You should go promiscuous to multicast. If the card doesn't support that, you should go fully promiscuous and drop unicasts that aren't to you. (Make sure you don't block packets that bpf is going to want to see). Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-21 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi In my seemingly never ending quest to get a correctly functioning driver for the WebGear wireless LAN cards I need some advice on how to DTRT with multi-casts. The WebGear cards can be programmed with 16 multicast addresses, from these the NIC itself generates hashes. So what should I do whe