Re: [Etherboot-developers] (no subject)

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >   (1).I wonder that if the Etherboot 5.1.2 rc support multicast?
> >why Mark all network drivers as not yet supporting multicast packets ?
> 
> Because the code to implement multicast in the drivers has to be
> written. It has only been implemented in the EEPRO100 driver. The
> details differ according to hardware.

And as a clarification it should take about a day or two to go through
all of the drivers (compare them to the Linux driver) and write the
needed 5 lines of code.  The eepro100 actually is one of the harder
NICs to support.  It is on my todo, I just haven't gotten that far yet.

Eric