Subject: Re: MOL Ethernet Patch (mol-0.9.47)
From: Charlie McLachlan (cim@uk.research.att.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 02:37:23 MDT
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Bill Fink wrote:
> the enclosed patch to MOL to accomplish this. The way it does this is
> to give MOL a unique Ethernet address by setting the locally defined
> Ethernet address bit and then using the SIOCADDMULTI ioctl to tell the
> Ethernet hardware to listen for this additional Ethernet address. This
Very good.
I think this is a much better way to filter packets than my IP based
method. Indeed, I would say it totally negates the need for my patch
at all.
Good work.
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Charlie McLachlan
AT&T Research Lab. Cambridge.
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