Subject: Re: LANCE bug (in the chip!)
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/19/1995 03:41:44
In article <9504182230.AA04613@bach>, Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com> wrote:
> + 	/*
> + 	 * Check for unreported packet errors.  Rev C of the LANCE chip
> + 	 * has a bug which can cause "random" bytes to be prepended to
> + 	 * the start of the packet.  The work-around is to make sure that
> + 	 * the Ethernet destination address in the packet matches our
> + 	 * address (or the broadcast address).
> + 	 */

Don't you need to check for multicast groups "we" belong to as well?
Otherwise multicast packets we receive will be reported as errors and
dropped. Right? (or does sun3 le not do multicast yet?)