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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Multicast support for XJ10BT Ethernet card
Date: 5 Nov 1996 07:25:11 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <55mbb2$ooi@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>, terzis@pelican.cs.ucla.edu (Andreas Terzis) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have a AST J30 notebook running 2.2-960604. I have a MegaHertz CC10BT 
>PCMCIA Ethernet card that I am using but I have the problem that it
>does not semm to support multicast apps. Unfortunately this is crucial
>for me since I use the machine to write some multicast apps. I have a 
>multicast enabled kernel but the card shows up as SIMPLEX if I do a
>'ifconfig -a'. HAs anyone has a similar problem? Any solutions/thoughts
>welcome

Multicasting support is in the device driver of the particular network adapter.
Look in there and see if you see some.  If you don't maybe you can use one
of the other card drivers, like the SMC or NE2000 card driver as a template
to adding the support into the driver.