Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AppleTalk crashes EEPro100 on a bonded etherchannel
From: Dejan Ilic (svedja@lysator.liu.se)
Date: Tue Nov 24 1998 - 18:06:47 EST
Talking about multicast I've heard that:
(free from my memory, from a guy that works with video-on-demand
stuff)
*) 3Com hardware support sucks. Multicasting is "1-bit" selected.
Either on or off, no hardware filtering at all. You receive ALL
multicasting trafic if you have it all.
*) Intel networking is better, something like it is able to separate a
couple multicasting-channels in hardware, something like "3-bit" I
think it was.
*) Their favorite is Digital Tulip-based cards (Dec-21something) that
can be found in cheap cards from DLINK for example. If I remember
correctly it is magnitude better in handling multicasting trafic
compared both to 3com and Intel.
All this is free from my memory, from talks I had with my friend about
it some time ago.
> in any case, i would like to collate some information on ethernet
> cards with good multicast support. could people send me their ethernet
> driver configurations? let me know the following:
> 2) whether or not atalkd causes your computer to crash or not.
I've just upgraded my Sun Ultra-1 to Solaris-7 with 64-bit support.
When booting in 32-bit mode, atalk starts up, but with a warning. In
64-bit mode atalk crashes.
But that is code compiled under Solaris-2.6.
I will recompile it ASAP to see if it helps.
Also, I would like to see a separate program that can dump Atalk-ARP.
Is it do-able without too much work ?
Dejan
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