[tulip] Natsemi.c driver Multicast hash problem

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Patrick Domack wrote:

> I know this isn't the right mailing list, but I didn't find any that
> would be more correct. 
> 
> My netgear with the dp83815 chipset, won't recieve multicast packets
> correctly. 
> It seems to me the problem is in the multicast hash table, though, I
> can't track it down myself. 
> If the card is set to promisc or to allmulti, it works fine.

You are correct.  That's a symptom of a screwed up multicast filter.

Which driver version are you using?
The v1.07 driver made a change in how the multicast filter is configured.

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