On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0400, Scott Bailie wrote:
> Though a driver exists for the Intel 82544 (Gigabit) chipset it seems to be
> lacking some support. One part in particular is multicast. Was there any
> particular reason it was left out?
My guess would be that because 99% of applications don't need
multicast support who ever wrote the driver didn't think it was
necassary, at least for there usage.. The main exception is IPv6 which
does require multicast for its address resolution protocols.
Andrew
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