1Behaviour of Cards Under Multicast 2================================== 3 4This is how they currently behave, not what the hardware can do--for example, 5the Lance driver doesn't use its filter, even though the code for loading 6it is in the DEC Lance-based driver. 7 8The following are requirements for multicasting 9----------------------------------------------- 10AppleTalk Multicast hardware filtering not important but 11 avoid cards only doing promisc 12IP-Multicast Multicast hardware filters really help 13IP-MRoute AllMulti hardware filters are of no help 14 15 16Board Multicast AllMulti Promisc Filter 17------------------------------------------------------------------------ 183c501 YES YES YES Software 193c503 YES YES YES Hardware 203c505 YES NO YES Hardware 213c507 NO NO NO N/A 223c509 YES YES YES Software 233c59x YES YES YES Software 24ac3200 YES YES YES Hardware 25apricot YES PROMISC YES Hardware 26arcnet NO NO NO N/A 27at1700 PROMISC PROMISC YES Software 28atp PROMISC PROMISC YES Software 29cs89x0 YES YES YES Software 30de4x5 YES YES YES Hardware 31de600 NO NO NO N/A 32de620 PROMISC PROMISC YES Software 33depca YES PROMISC YES Hardware 34dmfe YES YES YES Software(*) 35e2100 YES YES YES Hardware 36eepro YES PROMISC YES Hardware 37eexpress NO NO NO N/A 38ewrk3 YES PROMISC YES Hardware 39hp-plus YES YES YES Hardware 40hp YES YES YES Hardware 41hp100 YES YES YES Hardware 42ibmtr NO NO NO N/A 43ioc3-eth YES YES YES Hardware 44lance YES YES YES Software(#) 45ne YES YES YES Hardware 46ni52 <------------------ Buggy ------------------> 47ni65 YES YES YES Software(#) 48seeq NO NO NO N/A 49sgiseek <------------------ Buggy ------------------> 50sk_g16 NO NO YES N/A 51smc-ultra YES YES YES Hardware 52sunlance YES YES YES Hardware 53tulip YES YES YES Hardware 54wavelan YES PROMISC YES Hardware 55wd YES YES YES Hardware 56xirc2ps_cs YES YES YES Hardware 57znet YES YES YES Software 58 59 60PROMISC = This multicast mode is in fact promiscuous mode. Avoid using 61cards who go PROMISC on any multicast in a multicast kernel. 62 63(#) = Hardware multicast support is not used yet. 64(*) = Hardware support for Davicom 9132 chipset only. 65