Multicast does not work with Dell 2950 with Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T

[Sten Spans]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Michael Peer wrote:

> Hope anyone can help?
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> I have a new Dell 2950 with the Broadcom NetXtreme II NIC on board and
> seeing the following:
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> GB 0 interface is listed as bce1, and GB 1 is listed as bce1.  Do not
> see that with older dells that use em0, and em1 on-board NIC,
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> but this is not my problem
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> I am using the box as router, with quagga ospf loaded.  It does not see
> the OSPF multicast traffic of my other routers on network.

I've seen similar problems with 1550 and 1650, but with ipv6 addrs.
The simple solution is 'ifconfig bce0 promisc'.

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Sten Spans

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