On 30 Dec 2005 02:55:57 -0000 Dale Farnsworth wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > That doesn't quite answer my question of what the > > "Special Multicast Table for MAC addresses of the form > > 0x01-00-5E-00-00-XX" > > means (below). Do you (or anyone else) have any info on this? > > Those are MAC addresses assigned for routing and topology discovery. > See RFC 1112 and http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses . > Apparently, the hw designers thought it was worth hashing them > separately from other multicast addresses.
That's it, thanks for the pointers. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
