Hi, What I think is that there are no such thing as MAC multicast, correct me if I am wrong , thanks. I think when MAC address of a packet with a multicast address is sent to a physical subnet, it should be FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF , ie. for all to receive. Tace On Thu, 15 May 2003 16:58:01 Ronghua Zhang wrote: >I want to implement packet forwarding using MAC multicast. Basically, what >I want to acheive is the following: a frontend machine accept packets from >client side and forwards the packets to more than one backend machines. >The easiest way is simply forwarding packet once for each backend. But >this will consume too much bandwidth, that's why I resort to multicast. >But I have no idea how to let the MAC layer send a packet to a multicast >address, Anybody can shed some light on this? Thanks. > >ronghua >- >: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
