Sorry about this. The bug seems to be resolved in the 2.4.19 driver and
later. It was a problem in earlier versions, but I cannot reproduce the
problem in the latest kernel. Sorry for not verifying that it reproduced
prior to sending the message.
Also, I failed to comprehend the code prior to posting... Confession is
good for the soul...
Nat
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:14, Nat Ersoz wrote:
> Fellows,
>
> I'm debugging a problem in the natsemi.c driver which has the symptom
> that muticast reception quits for no apparent reason. Unicast still
> works fine, the multicast stream is being sent, but no packets make it
> past the hash filter. In versions of the driver, 2.4.19 and before, we
> "fixed" this problem by setting ifconfig "allmuti" on the device.
>
> As I'm writing a debug routine, I notice that:
>
>
> static void __set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> ...
>
> for (i = 0, mclist = dev->mc_list;
> mclist && i < dev->mc_count;
> i++, mclist = mclist->next) {
> set_bit_le(
> dp83815_crc(ETH_ALEN, mclist->dmi_addr) & 0x1ff,
> mc_filter); /* WHOOPS!! Shouldn't this be &mc_filter[i*2]
> ?? */
> }
> ...
> }
>
> (see the comment containnig WHOOPS)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nat
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