Hi, I am trying to configure the ethernet subsystem to filter out multicast streams selectively, and I am running into some problems. If anyone has done this before, could you try to answer the following questions? 1) For an incoming packet, the chip computes a non-inverted CRC32 calculation over the destination MAC address, and uses the top 6 bits (using the default values of MHASH_INDEX) to hash into the 64bin multicast hash table to decide whether to filter the packet out or not. As an example, if I set the multicast filter to accept packets from 225.10.10.0/255.255.255.252 ( MACs - 008a000a0a00 to 008a000a0a03 ). The port configuration is, AFAFIL1 0xffff0003 multicast 64bin hash filter 4000:0008:0100:0000 (high, mid-high , mid-low , low) With this configuration, the box sees streams like 225.10.10.11, but filters out 225.11.10.1. I would like to make sure that the CRC32 algorithm that the chip is using is the same I'm using. I have tried two different implementations that don't seem to work (in both cases they filter out some multicast streams but not the correct ones). My CRC32 implementation details are: CRC32(123456789) is 2dfd2d88, which is a bytes reversed, non-inverted result, seeded on 0x00000000 and with a polynomial base 0x04c11db7 implementation. CRC32(123456789) is cbf43926, which is a bytes reversed, result inverted, seeded on 0xffffffff and with a polynomial base 0x04c11db7 implementation. Has anybody tried this before? Could this be an endianness problem with my CRC32 calculations (even though they both give the correct checksum over the '123456789' pattern? 2) I will just mention my second problem just in case somebody else has seen it. I have three ethernet ports, eth0, eth1 and eth2, and I use the same code with the correct register offsets to write to the address filtering logic. I can't write any values to eth1, even though it works perfectly for eth0 and eth2. Thanks, Alex
