> Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> |> mapping from IPmulticast to link-level Ethernet addreses.  So you for
> |> IP at least, don't need to do a check.
> |
> |Thats not the only reason. RFC1122 explicitly states that for link
> |types which only have one multicast address (the broadcast address),
> 
> Yes, but .. Think of a 100MBps Ethernet (or even of any of those GB tries),
> where IP has to check *every* packet of the 100MBps coming in just to
> find out that only some kilobit of data is really wanted by the host. If
> your card can filter it out then it should.

Yes, of course. I wasn't objecting to that.

My comment was about the sentence above the cited one.

	-is