[ECOS] Multicast support for i82559 Ethernet Driver

[Gary Thomas]

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 06:39, Ramanujan Puranam Tandalam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are working with the older version of TCP/IP stack (not the Free BSD
> merge)that has been ported from Open BSD. On this we have ported the
> IPv6 stack also from OpenBSD 3.0.
> 
> We have modified the if_i82559.c driver for support Multicast, which was
> absent earlier.
> 
> We could trace the path till the Ethernet Driver, the problem is when:
> 
> 1. We ping the target using ping6, we do not get any update of
> statistics at the Driver level. Neither there is updation of  Rx
> interrrupts, or rx data. 
> 
> When we ran the FreeBSD stack of eCos, it was working perfectly fine.
> 
> Could any one help in giving pointers to the above problem.

So, what's wrong with just using the FreeBSD stack?  It's newer and is
expected to become the only supported [BSD] stack for eCos.  The fact
that we left the older OpenBSD stack around was just for compatibility.

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