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- Lines: 20
- Date:
Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999
- Orig file:
v2.2.11/linux/Documentation/networking/multicast.txt
- Orig date:
Thu Jun 4 22:53:50 1998
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/Documentation/networking/multicast.txt linux/Documentation/networking/multicast.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-Behaviour of cards under Multicast. This is how they currently
-behave not what the hardware can do - i.e. the lance driver doesn't
-use its filter, even though the code for loading it is in the DEC
-lance based driver.
+Behaviour of Cards Under Multicast
+==================================
-The following multicast requirements are needed
+This is how they currently behave, not what the hardware can do--for example,
+the Lance driver doesn't use its filter, even though the code for loading
+it is in the DEC Lance-based driver.
+
+The following are requirements for multicasting
-----------------------------------------------
-Appletalk Multicast hardware filtering not important but
+AppleTalk Multicast hardware filtering not important but
avoid cards only doing promisc
IP-Multicast Multicast hardware filters really help
IP-MRoute AllMulti hardware filters are of no help
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