From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: multiple unicast mac address (was Re: netdev_ops retraction) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:27:45 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030731132745.GQ29577@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20030730184416.GI22222@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <2147483647.1059659359@fozzy.rossfell.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DXIF1lRUlMsbZ3S1" Return-path: To: Rick Payne , netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1059659359@fozzy.rossfell.co.uk> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --DXIF1lRUlMsbZ3S1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-07-31T13:49:19, Rick Payne said: > Some ethernet cards seem to support this and don't care what MAC addresse= s=20 > get put in the multicast list - and I've used that technique before (on= =20 > cards such as the eepro100 for instance). Others may have a different, no= t=20 > currently used method to set multiple unicast MAC addresses. Finally, as = a=20 > worst last case - a card could go into promiscuous mode and filter in=20 > software. >=20 > Should I just start on a patch and submit it here for comment? Please do. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur --DXIF1lRUlMsbZ3S1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/KRlQudf3XQV4S2cRArrwAJ40JywXivobQaFGH0tQ6+4ry25/+QCggzHr zk/k2btBhP8sMaGWkLyWUR0= =F4R8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DXIF1lRUlMsbZ3S1--