Re: Problems with 2.2.9, EEpro100 and IPv6 (was: Re: 2.2.0-pre9 and still "misbehaviour" with EEpro/

Aaron Passey (aaronp@ofb.net)
29 May 1999 21:31:53 GMT


On Thu, 27 May 1999 22:52:57 +0200, Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>So there's definitely something fishy going on with the combination of
>eepro100 and IPv6. Bad, since I really want to start deploying IPv6
>in our local test bed here (as soon as RIPE hands out some v6 addresses).

I have seen exactly this same behavior using Netatalk with the
Intel EEPro netcard. According to the Netatalk docs, the EEPro doesn't
handle multicast properly. Does IPv6 use use multicast?

>From the Netatalk README.ASUN:

problems with appletalk:
certain ethernet card/drivers don't deal well with the fact
that appletalk aggressively uses hardware multicast. here are
a few ones that may cause problems:
ne2000 clones
3Com501 cards (maybe others)
intel etherexpress/pro
set multicast_filter_limit=3 in linux if you're having
problems with this card. to do that, add the following
line to /etc/conf.modules:
options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3

Aaron

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