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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:38:26 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, yves@CC.McGill.CA
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mcast on 3c509
Message-ID:  <QRoGvvl8D0@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199506210257.HAA08075@hq.icb.chel.su>; from "Serge A. Babkin" at Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:57:01 %2B0500 (GMT%2B0500)
References:  <199506210257.HAA08075@hq.icb.chel.su>

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In message <199506210257.HAA08075@hq.icb.chel.su> Serge A. Babkin
    writes:

>> my at-work machine: FreeBSD 2.0, 2 3c509's, 40MB mem, 1.25GB IDE disk, PCI
>> bus. The problem is that the ep driver doesn't seem to support multicast.
>> I didn't find anything related to mcast with that driver. Is mcast something
>> that's driver dependant or do I need a new ifconfig that'd know how to set    
>> the 2 interfaces to be mcast capable? I think not because the interfaces
>> handled by an ed driver can have the IFF_MULTICAST flag set...

>Point to some application that uses multicast that I can
>use for tests please (it will be better if it will be simpler) and I'll try
>to add multicast features to the ep driver.

You can try videoconference applications from ports: ivs and others.
You can also look in if_ed.c, here complete MULTICAST implementation
present, low level is minimal.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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