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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Multicast support for XJ10BT Ethernet card
Date: 8 Nov 1996 16:35:09 GMT
Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan.
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Hi!

I'm the maintainer of PAO package.

In article <55mq4n$8ss@Symiserver2.symantec.com>
tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:

>> 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.

And if you succeeded in supporting multicast on if_sn driver, please
send me the patch.  I have no time to do with multicast support
because I'm struggling against the mystery of multifunction PC-card :-).

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          HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi            E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
                                               hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org
          WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html