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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: NE1000 PD problem found, WATCH FOR BAD CARD ADRESSES!
Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:40:40
Message-ID: <NELSON.91Mar20224040@sun.clarkson.edu>
In-Reply-To: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com's message of 20 Mar 91 06:35:22 GMT
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	<NELSON.91Mar18120225@sun.clarkson.edu> <92430@sgi.sgi.com>
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In article <92430@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:

   In article <NELSON.91Mar18120225@sun.clarkson.edu>
   nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
   +---------------
   | Multicast (one of the many possible multicast addresses is the
   | broadcast address).  I'm going to put a check for multicast
   | addresses into the ne1000 and ne2000 drivers for the 9.x release.
   +---------------

   But please don't *disable* receiving multicast packets!

Oh goodness, no!  I'm going to check to see if the board's *own* address
has the multicast bit set.  I think you can see how that might cause
problems.  :-)

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