Re: ARCnet multicast support (for PROMISC-capable , i.e. COM20020 cards).

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:23:15 +0000 (GMT)

> Actually, using promiscuous mode to handle multicasts is absolutely
> wrong idea, true emulation is to ignore them.

IP multicast over arcnet in the few strange places that do it is mapped to
the MAC level broadcast. The same is true for AX.25 and NetROM, although
folks have proposed a multicast name set to replace justing using QST-0
(of course at 9600 baud its not an issue ;))

Alan