IP Multicast on Token Ring

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From: Andrew Hood
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00

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On Ethernet IP multicast is sent to the multicast mac address as defined
in the Assigned Numbers RFC.

Another RFC (I forget which, I can find it if you insist) says Token Ring
multicast can use the broadcast mac address (level 0), the functional mac
address (level 1), or the same multicast mac address Ethernet uses (level
2).

By default Linux seems to use level 2.

The RFC requires level 2 implementations to support levels 0 and 1, and
level 1 implementations to support level 0.

Does Linux let you specify which one of these you want to use?

If so where do I specify it? I need level 0 to get gated talk to some
Proteon and Cisco routers.

-- 
DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams

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Subject: IP Multicast on Token Ring
Date: 1997/03/19
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