From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: eCos Disuss Subject: Re: [ECOS] Anybody doing IP multicast? Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010522104607.A3002@visi.com> References: <20010522100539.B2764@visi.com> <20010522174105.M4729@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00366.html On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:41:05PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Is anybody aware of any reasons it can't work? (e.g. Missing > > pieces Ethernet driver API or something like that...) > > Well for the i82559, there is no API call to set up the > multicast address list. Maybe this is not actually needed. You > could put the device into promisc mode and receive everything, > and then dump whats not needed. Alternativly, the device may > actually receive multicast MAC addresses already and you just > have to filter out whats interesting? So, it sounds like the chances of it working as-is with stock ethernet drivers are pretty slim. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com