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SubjectRe: ARCnet multicast support (for PROMISC-capable , i.e. COM20020 cards).
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Hello!

> > Actually, using promiscuous mode to handle multicasts is absolutely
> > wrong idea, true emulation is to ignore them.
>
> IP multicast over arcnet in the few strange places that do it is mapped to
> the MAC level broadcast. The same is true for AX.25 and NetROM, although
> folks have proposed a multicast name set to replace justing using QST-0
> (of course at 9600 baud its not an issue ;))

Broadcasts are more than enough in this case.

Really, in quoted sentence I blamed on ethernet drivers which
try to emulate multicasts with IFF_PROMISC.
Brr... it was wrong idea.

Alexey.

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