On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:02 +0100, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: >Jeroen Massar wrote: >>>Ok, so that's an option. Another is to just say that when 33 multicast >>>is not available for broadcast, just use ff broadcast. >> >> >> Which is what various drivers already do. Most of the time when you have >> a card and RA's don't work, ifconfig eth0 promisc and done. > >I don't think 'ifconfig eth0 promisc' (provided card supports this) is a >proper way to say that IPv6 works over Ethernet. 'promisc' simply >nullifies all other Ethernet address processing.
But it gets your multicast to work and that is the trick. Note that you can also try 'allmulti', which on some cards/drivers is enough to get multicast going. >If people do ifconfig eth0 promisc in order to have IPv6 working then >this should be at least documented somewhere. This works for broken network cards/driver combinations. Usually the driver was to blame as it would work on Windows(tm) ;) In short: complain to your vendor to make it work. Or vote with your money and get something that works out of the box. Greets, Jeroen
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