Documentation/networking/multicast.txt

   1 Behaviour of Cards Under Multicast
   2 ==================================
   3
   4 This is how they currently behave, not what the hardware can do--for example,
   5 the Lance driver doesn't use its filter, even though the code for loading
   6 it is in the DEC Lance-based driver.
   7
   8 The following are requirements for multicasting
   9 -----------------------------------------------
  10 AppleTalk       Multicast       hardware filtering not important but
  11                                  avoid cards only doing promisc
  12 IP-Multicast    Multicast       hardware filters really help
  13 IP-MRoute       AllMulti        hardware filters are of no help
  14
  15
  16 Board           Multicast       AllMulti        Promisc         Filter
  17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  18 3c501           YES             YES             YES             Software
  19 3c503           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  20 3c505           YES             NO              YES             Hardware
  21 3c507           NO              NO              NO              N/A
  22 3c509           YES             YES             YES             Software
  23 3c59x           YES             YES             YES             Software
  24 ac3200          YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  25 apricot         YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
  26 arcnet          NO              NO              NO              N/A
  27 at1700          PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
  28 atp             PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
  29 cs89x0          YES             YES             YES             Software
  30 de4x5           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  31 de600           NO              NO              NO              N/A
  32 de620           PROMISC         PROMISC         YES             Software
  33 depca           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
  34 dmfe            YES             YES             YES             Software(*)
  35 e2100           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  36 eepro           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
  37 eexpress        NO              NO              NO              N/A
  38 ewrk3           YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
  39 hp-plus         YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  40 hp              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  41 hp100           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  42 ibmtr           NO              NO              NO              N/A
  43 ioc3-eth        YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  44 lance           YES             YES             YES             Software(#)
  45 ne              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  46 ni52            <------------------ Buggy ------------------>
  47 ni65            YES             YES             YES             Software(#)
  48 seeq            NO              NO              NO              N/A
  49 sgiseek         <------------------ Buggy ------------------>
  50 smc-ultra       YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  51 sunlance        YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  52 tulip           YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  53 wavelan         YES             PROMISC         YES             Hardware
  54 wd              YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  55 xirc2ps_cs      YES             YES             YES             Hardware
  56 znet            YES             YES             YES             Software
  57
  58
  59 PROMISC = This multicast mode is in fact promiscuous mode. Avoid using
  60 cards who go PROMISC on any multicast in a multicast kernel.
  61
  62 (#) = Hardware multicast support is not used yet.
  63 (*) = Hardware support for Davicom 9132 chipset only.