[realtek] Multicast problem with RealTek?

Steve Smoot smoot@alum.mit.edu (Steve Smoot)
Mon Jan 27 22:32:01 2003


I wrote:
>   The port works fine under regular TCP/IP.  It works fine, if I receive
> one stream (~ 5 Mbps)  of multicast content.

turns out this is not the case.  It did for for minutes (maybe 40?) but
after restarting a test, with just one receiver, it did fail within a few
minutes - so it doesn't seem to be the number of groups, or even the
aggregate data rate, but some random race.  Ideas?

-s