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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 10:58:30 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/631 
Message-ID:  <9605281458.AA12889@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <96May27.094518pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
References:  <199605262339.QAA11265@freefall.freebsd.org> <96May27.094518pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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<<On Mon, 27 May 1996 09:45:07 PDT, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> said:

> In message <199605262339.QAA11265@freefall.freebsd.org> you write:
>> Synopsis: if_ix does not support bpf, nor does it appear to support MC.

> Nobody appears to know how to put this card into promiscuous mode, nor
> how to configure its multicast filters.  I tried to argued that bpf is
> useful without promiscuous mode, but was overruled.

Just copy the code from if_ie.c; all the Intel devices do multicast
the same way.  The promiscuous mode changes should be fairly clear
from that example as well (esentially you have to re-init the device
with one bit flipped).

-GAWollman

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