Subject: Re: kue multicast buggy?
To: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/22/2003 00:03:20
It might very well be buggy, I have no idea if it's been tested.
Can it be patched by not having the driver claim to be handling multicast?

    -- Lennart


Feico Dillema wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a kue USB ether in use (on a 1.6.1 machine) which seems to have
>severe problems with multicast. It just doesn't listen to any groups
>which is a bit of a problem for an IPv6-only interface. man kue tells
>me it supports multicast, but right now the machine only sees
>multicast packets in promiscuous mode (by running a tcpdump on it).
>
>I didn't find anything related in gnats, and would love to hear a
>quick fix for this. (If not, I'll get some other interface to replace
>it).
>
>#ifconfig kue0
>kue0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 00:90:04:bb:51:b0
>        inet6 fe80::1%kue0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
>        inet6 2001:700:400:2::1 prefixlen 64
>
>#ifmcstat
>kue0:
>        inet6 fe80::1%kue0
>        inet6 2001:700:400:2::1
>                group ff02::2%kue0 refcnt 1
>                group ff02::9%kue0 refcnt 1
>                group ff02::1%kue0 refcnt 1
>                group ff02::1:ff00:1%kue0 refcnt 2
>        enaddr 00:90:04:bb:51:b0 multicnt 0
>
>it seems to me there is a list of enaddr missing that start with 33:33:
>If somebody else can confirm this, I'll send-pr it.
>
>Feico.
>
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