On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:15:53 +0100 
 Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> wrote:

 > Looking at some network drivers I've observed that the processing of
 > SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCGIFADDR, and SIOCSIFMTU are very similar
 > in most drivers.  Why don't we do what FreeBSD and OpenBSD have done
 > and break out that code into a subroutine that can be called?

I looked at doing that... however, their approach can have negative
effects if one reprograms the multicast filter often.  I have been
meaning to look into this further.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>