From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 28 07:58:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05049 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 07:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05040 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 07:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA12889; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:58:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:58:30 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605281458.AA12889@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bill Fenner Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/631 In-Reply-To: <96May27.094518pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> References: <199605262339.QAA11265@freefall.freebsd.org> <96May27.094518pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant