From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 08:59:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA23479 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 08:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from forbidden-planet.netlab.london.sco.com (forbidden-planet.london.sco.COM [150.126.4.148]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23461 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 08:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davided@localhost) by forbidden-planet.netlab.london.sco.com (8.6.12/dme/nice-1.1) id QAA15389; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:54:06 GMT Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:54:06 GMT Message-Id: <199601151654.QAA15389@forbidden-planet.netlab.london.sco.com> from: dme@zigzag.org To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Alicher O Alikhodjaev , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199601151557.QAA09105@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199601151322.QAA06200@test.phys.msu.su> <199601151557.QAA09105@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Face: "?v.huY]?B[a4C|xid!Tx8TpwOQe6]C(I}h8Vo1z6'9soM_Xvq2f3u::[F~rW>GWj6;IfU,10H;B&1JDE/H8?``q4XH4~!\_z{n3RDmkC;9d!Yx3O7n?9,[CE;TWB! F8.e5fc0dJXikU'v1qFVTfptB7xe$y*t#jx4`I44n,ypMQg@.|Z^ycJ:G]{dR~E}_.T1^shwC%T4eRGVu%h+J7lBzb>m20==Q*OPAf^~@6Lj^)rI9Tb*m*L}}HC~{> /__Od\I=[|aP6s}B%BhqtE-9uGJ0J3jchjcyJz5fW[i0$RfPv7Zp=!a+0pR Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk the 5x9 family can be asked to receive all multicast traffic, but not just a selected set of multicast addresses. this is better than promiscuous, but still not ideal. i've never looked at the freebsd 5x9 driver, so i've no idea if it already does this, but `group' mode is turned on by setting bit 0x2 in the command status register. -- ``We don't modify the data, we just pass it on.'' -- Andy Walker, SCO EMEA Support