[ECOS] freebsd and mulitcast addresses

[Andrew Lunn]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:58:44PM +0100, Stefan Rosinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Could the FreeBSD stack get problems with Multicast packets from Windows XP
> if not enabled(not supported by the ethernet driver)?

If you are trying to use IPv6 then yes it will get confused when it
cannot receive multicast frames. But i guess you are not using
IPv6. With plain old IPv4 it should not be a problem.

> How could mulitcast support could be added to a device driver if the device
> support it?

Take a look at a driver that does support multicast and use it as a
template.

        Andrew

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