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Linux/Documentation/networking/multicast.txt

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  1 Behaviour of Cards Under Multicast
  2 ==================================
  3 
  4 This is how they currently behave, not what the hardware can do--for example,
  5 the Lance driver doesn't use its filter, even though the code for loading
  6 it is in the DEC Lance-based driver.
  7 
  8 The following are requirements for multicasting 
  9 -----------------------------------------------
 10 AppleTalk       Multicast       hardware filtering not important but
 11                                  avoid cards only doing promisc
 12 IP-Multicast    Multicast       hardware filters really help
 13 IP-MRoute       AllMulti        hardware filters are of no help
 14 
 15 
 16 Board           Multicast       AllMulti        Promisc         Filter
 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 18 3c501           YES             YES             YES             Software
 19 3c503           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 20 3c505           YES             NO              YES             Hardware
 21 3c507           NO              NO              NO              N/A
 22 3c509           YES             YES             YES             Software
 23 3c59x           YES             YES             YES             Software
 24 ac3200          YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 25 apricot         YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
 26 arcnet          NO              NO              NO              N/A
 27 at1700          PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
 28 atp             PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
 29 cs89x0          YES             YES             YES             Software
 30 de4x5           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 31 de600           NO              NO              NO              N/A
 32 de620           PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
 33 depca           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
 34 e2100           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 35 eepro           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
 36 eexpress        NO              NO              NO              N/A
 37 ewrk3           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
 38 hp-plus         YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 39 hp              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 40 hp100           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 41 ibmtr           NO              NO              NO              N/A
 42 lance           YES             YES             YES             Software(#)
 43 ne              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 44 ni52            <------------------ Buggy ------------------>
 45 ni65            YES             YES             YES             Software(#)
 46 seeq            NO              NO              NO              N/A
 47 sk_g16          NO              NO              YES             N/A
 48 smc-ultra       YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 49 sunlance        YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 50 tulip           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 51 wavelan         YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
 52 wd              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
 53 znet            YES             YES             YES             Software
 54 
 55 
 56 PROMISC = This multicast mode is in fact promiscuous mode. Avoid using
 57 cards who go PROMISC on any multicast in a multicast kernel.
 58 (#) = Hardware multicast support is not used yet.

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