Subject: Re: Ether3/5 driver and multicast
To: S.J. Borrill <sjb42@cus.cam.ac.uk>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/06/1998 18:56:05
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, S.J. Borrill wrote:

> I'm running netatalk 1.4b2 on a 1.3F kernel with a Ether3 card in the
> machine. atalkd dies when starting. Looking at the source, this seems to
> be when the interface is being configured for multicast:
> 
> ifconfig( iface->i_name, SIOCADDMULTI, &sa)
> 
> I suspect this means that the ea0 driver does not support multicast.
> Replacing the card by a EtherH works find (so I guess ne0 does support
> multicast).
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Hi,
  Yep the ether3/5 and etherB drivers do not currently support
SIOCADDMULTI.

Cheers,
			Mark