[realtek] Multicast problem with RealTek?

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Steve Smoot wrote:

>   I have a linux box I am using to process digital video.
>   The box uses the Asus P4S333, with the RealTek (something), using the
> sis900 driver under Linux kernel 2.4.19 compiled with sis900 and
>   multicast

Hmmm, it appears that you are using a SIS900 NIC with a Realtek transceiver.

This list is for Realtek NICs.

>   I've looked at the sis900.c changes in between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 and
> 2.4.21-pre3, and they seem to fix some resource bugs on the transmit
> side, but nothing on the receive.  But it's all new to me.

Nothing seems really obscure in the sis900.c multicast filter setting
code -- it uses an older version of my example code.  The only thing I
disagree with is increasing the default value of the
multicast_filter_limit to 128.

> root # more /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:  224224    3646    0    0    0     0          0         0   224224    3646    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth0:2956927186 79306224   12 267062    0     0          0         0 68500808  102422  228    0    4   123     224          0
>   eth1:3289149352 10828207    0    3    0     0          0  10081240  1098527   10240  307 21153    0   666     308          0
> looks fine to me.

Wow.  This looks horribly broken.  You have a major problems with
network errors.  Check your cables.


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