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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-10-09 00:00:47 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-10-09 00:00:47 +0000
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-Behaviour of cards under Multicast. This is how they currently
-behave not what the hardware can do - i.e. the lance driver doesn't
-use its filter, even though the code for loading it is in the DEC
-lance based driver.
+Behaviour of Cards Under Multicast
+==================================
-The following multicast requirements are needed
+This is how they currently behave, not what the hardware can do--for example,
+the Lance driver doesn't use its filter, even though the code for loading
+it is in the DEC Lance-based driver.
+
+The following are requirements for multicasting
-----------------------------------------------
-Appletalk Multicast hardware filtering not important but
+AppleTalk Multicast hardware filtering not important but
avoid cards only doing promisc
IP-Multicast Multicast hardware filters really help
IP-MRoute AllMulti hardware filters are of no help