Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

what's possible? why not?

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
>   
>> Is it possible to associate shared activities with ethernet ports 
>> instead of whole multicast addresses? Then we would only need one single 
>> multicast address and do the filtering on the ethernet ports (eg IP is 
>> port 0x0800). At the very least, the multicast address is 6 bytes and 
>> the ethernet port is 2 bytes.
>>     
>
> That's possible, yes -- although you won't get the device filtering it
> for you then.
>
>   

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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
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