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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!info.core.ntt.jp!nttaip.min!phantom!ishizuka From: ishizuka@isis.min.ntt.jp (Masachika ISHIZUKA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multicast support in the 3COM 3C509B (ep0) driver? Date: 19 Nov 1995 08:14:27 GMT Organization: NTT Information and Communication Systems Labs., Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48mp5g$4eh@phantom.min.ntt.jp> References: <finlayson-1811950121040001@hokianga.live.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: onion.min.ntt.jp In-reply-to: finlayson@live.com's message of Sat, 18 Nov 1995 01:21:04 -0800 > From browsing the source code (in the 2.1.0-951104-SNAP snapshot), I > notice that the 3COM 3C509B driver (/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c) does > not support multicast addressing. In particular, the code doesn't set the > IFF_MULTICAST flag, nor does it handle the SIOCADDMULTI ioctl. > > Is there a good reason for this? Is there a version of this driver code > out there that handles multicast? If not, could I likely get the driver > to work by copying appropriate code from the if_ed.c driver (which, unlike > if_ep.c, *does* seem to support multicast)? I don't know why the 3c509b driver with 2.1.0-XXX does not support multicast addressing, but patches for 3c509 driver can be found by using http://www.freebsd.com/search.html. You can find the following mail. | From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 9 19:09:13 1995 | From: "Serge A. Babkin" | Message-Id: <199508100211.IAA23568@hq.icb.chel.su> | Subject: Re: Multicast and ep0? | To: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) | Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:11:34 +0600 (GMT+0600) or | From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 16 21:56:28 1995 | From: "Serge A. Babkin" | Message-Id: <199510170500.KAA23451@hq.icb.chel.su> | Subject: 3c509 in -current needs patching | To: current@freebsd.org | Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:00:04 +0500 (GMT+0500) These two mail are identical.