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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast
Message-ID:  <199904141727.NAA09373@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com>
References:  <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr> <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com>

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<<On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:04:03 -0600, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> said:

> 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.

3Com NICs have historically been crap.  Several of them had a one-bit
multicast filter.  Intel's have always had good support for multicast
(but unlike DEC NICs they don't do perfect filtering).

-GAWollman

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