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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MULTICAST for EtherLink III under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 11 Nov 1994 03:50:13 GMT
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Antonio Calegari (calegari@cilea.it) wrote:
: does anybody knpw about multicast port to 3Com Etherlink III 
: ( if_ep driver) ?

The NetBSD if_ep driver supports (and has for a long time) multicasts.  I'd
be real surprised if the FreeBSD copy of if_ep didn't support it.


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