kern/125024: vr(4) does not see incoming multicast packets in non-promiscuous mode (broadcast is fine); breaks IPv6

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 07:59:19 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:44:55AM -0700, Eugene M. Kim wrote:
 > FWIW, I stumbled upon this while browsing through old -net archives...
 > Apparently re(4) had a similar (same?) problem.
 > 
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-April/034336.html
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-April/034339.html
 > 

I believe these were already fixed in CURRENT/stable.
I think your issue is a regression of vr(4) overhauling. Since
VT6105M supports perfect filtering on multicast frames with CAM
I've added that hardware capability but it seems that CAM
programming wasn't correct. 

 > Cheers,
 > Eugene

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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