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

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Donald J Christensen <dj...@ci...> writes:

> "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.

Right the code is already doing this correct.  But thanks for the catch.

Eric