From: Bob Snyder (eivyu.kuwsikd@ip30.ima.pl)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 23:08:07 EEST
Cees Tool wrote:
> A DOS-BPQ-node normally sent its frames to a 'multicast' address. Linux
> BPQ-ethernet frames are sent to the broadcast-adress. Your BPQ-node will
> receive the broadcast frames, but the Linux system will NOT receive
> multicast frames if you did not enable multicast on your ethernet
interface.
> Probably that's why the Linux computer does not receive any of the DOS-BPQ
> frames.
Is there any reason the linux BPQ piece can't register to receive just the
appropriate multicast address? If I understand this correctly, you're
setting up the Ethernet card to pass all multicast traffic up to the CPU,
rather than having the network card determine which packets are destined for
the local system... Not likely to be a huge load, especially on networks
you're likely to find BPQ on, but...
Bob N2KGO
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