Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:04:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast Message-ID: <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> References: <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> Is it hard to add multicast capabilities to a network driver ?
>
> I tumbled on the lack of multicast support of the if_ex.c driver (Intel
> EtherExpress 10/ISA) when installing IPv6. I had to swap them for 3c905s.
It depends on the level of support the chipset has for multicast.
Intel chips in general kind of suck at this. Apparently they haven't
even fixed it in the EEPro/100 chipset yet.
I haven't looked at the 3c9xx series, but hope they're a bit better
than Intel.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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