Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] Multicast reception....

[Donald J C. <dj...@ci...>]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> 
> "Anselm Martin Hoffmeister" <an...@ho...> writes:
...
> > As you might have read already, multicast packets are addressed to special
> > ethernet addresses (00:50:5f:xx:yy:zz or so, no docs at hand), leaving away
> > the top 8 bit of the Multicast IP address.
...

Just a slight correction here.  The least significant bit of the most
significant byte of the MAC address needs to be a one for multicast.
Ie, 01.00.5e.xx.yy.zz is typically used for addresses managed by IGMP.

-Don

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