Re: Multicast support with Linux Ethernet drivers

[Manuel Menal]

Gianluca Guida wrote:
> Hi Manuel,

Hi,

> On 2/24/06, Manuel Menal <mmenal@hurdfr.org> wrote:

> > I'll be working on those patches, and BPF as well, during the next week,
> > so they might change.

> Support for wireless extensions and multicasting peers will just need
> an extension to this patch.

Yup. I'll have a look at how multicasting peers are handled on Linux to
add it to the patch.

> Btw, I am curious about the BPF work, can you give us more details (if
> you want, of course ;-).

Well, as I wrote on debian-hurd, I've made a patch to fix Mach BPF
support, and Richard and Guillaume Libersat are working on a BPF
translator (that implements /dev/bpf). Guillaume is also working on
net_io and on the glue code so that we can catch outgoing packets as
well with BPF & so on.

The translator mostly works, and so does Mach BPF (you can catch packets
with tcpdump(1) and so on).

See you in FOSDEM!

--
Manuel