Messages in this thread | | | From | "A.N.Kuznetsov" <> | Subject | Re: ARCnet multicast support (for PROMISC-capable , i.e. COM20020 cards). | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:18:33 +0300 (MSK) |
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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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