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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which Ethernet drivers support multicast, or would ep0 do it?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 11:35:05 -0500
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <slrn4mp1ef.qge.map@marikit.iphil.net>,
Miguel A.L. Paraz <map@marikit.iphil.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a FreeBSD 2.1 system with the 3C509 driver (ep0).
>From trying to run OSPF under gated, I find out that
>multicast is not supported.  Do any later versions support it?
>If not, what drivers do?
>
>From wandering around the source, I cannot tell which ones
>do and don't...

the FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE ep0 driver did not support multicast, but ftp
the -current ep0 driver from ftp.freebsd.org for mulitcast support.

for a list of supported cards, see:

	http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~tinguely/mbone-freebsd/mrouted.html

I believe this page is also linked via the Multimedia web page on
www.freebsd.org

--mark.