From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Rick Payne <rickp@rossfell.co.uk>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: multiple unicast mac address (was Re: netdev_ops retraction)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:27:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030731132745.GQ29577@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1059659359@fozzy.rossfell.co.uk>
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On 2003-07-31T13:49:19,
Rick Payne <rickp@rossfell.co.uk> said:
> Some ethernet cards seem to support this and don't care what MAC addresses
> get put in the multicast list - and I've used that technique before (on
> cards such as the eepro100 for instance). Others may have a different, not
> currently used method to set multiple unicast MAC addresses. Finally, as a
> worst last case - a card could go into promiscuous mode and filter in
> software.
>
> Should I just start on a patch and submit it here for comment?
Please do.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
"If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-31 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 18:44 netdev_ops retraction Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-30 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-30 23:35 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-07-30 23:41 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-31 11:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-31 12:49 ` multiple unicast mac address (was Re: netdev_ops retraction) Rick Payne
2003-07-31 13:27 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-07-31 14:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-31 15:09 ` Rick Payne
2003-08-03 19:06 ` jamal
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