Re: broken IFF_ALLMULTI handling in many drivers

2002-11-22 Thread Petri Helenius
I think the same applies for promiscuous mode, if the interface undergoes configuration changes while it's in promiscuous mode and the hardware gets reinitialized it "forgets" about being in that mode. This happens at least with em. Pete Luigi Rizzo wrote: [Bcc to re@ because it would be good t

broken IFF_ALLMULTI handling in many drivers

2002-11-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[Bcc to re@ because it would be good to have it fixed before 5.0] Hi, Pavlin Radoslavov recently discovered a problem that affects several network drivers and tends to show up when running multicast routing. The problem is that the multicast routing code calls iff_allmulti() on the interfaces, wh