Re: IPv6-capable pfinet

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:24:41PM +0200, Stefan Siegl wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:52:28AM +0200, I wrote:
> >  - Please mind that IPv6 heavily relies on multicasting (especially
> >    router and neighbour solicits and advertisements) and that by default
> >    GNU Mach doesn't configure the network drivers to receive those
> >    multicasts.  This is, you need to patch your Mach kernel:
> > [...]
> > 
> >    ... however not all network drivers seem to care for this flag.  My
> >    eepro100 does, even the orinoco does, but the ne2k-pci doesn't.
> 
> Here's a fixed patch, which makes even the ne2k-pci receive multicast
> packets :)
> 
> 2007-10-07  Stefan Siegl  <stesie@brokenpipe.de>
> 
>       * linux/dev/glue/net.c (device_open): Set LINUX_IFF_ALLMULTI flag
>       on device and propagate.

Is there any downside that would stop us from unconditionally applying
this?


Regards,
 Thomas

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