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-Behaviour of cards under Multicast. This is how they currently 
-behave not what the hardware can do. In particular all the 8390 based
-cards don't use the onboard hash filter, and the lance driver doesn't
-use its filter, even though the code for loading it is in the DEC
-lance based driver.
-
-The following multicast requirements are needed
------------------------------------------------
-Appletalk	Multicast	hardware filtering not important but
-				 avoid cards only doing promisc
-IP-Multicast	Multicast	hardware filters really help
-IP-MRoute	AllMulti	hardware filters are of no help
-
-
-Board		Multicast	AllMulti	Promisc		Filter
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-3c501		YES		YES		YES		Software
-3c503		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-3c505		YES		NO		YES		Hardware
-3c507		NO		NO		NO		N/A
-3c509		YES		YES		YES		Software
-3c59x		YES		YES		YES		Software
-ac3200		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-apricot		YES		PROMISC		YES		Hardware
-arcnet		NO		NO		NO		N/A
-at1700		PROMISC		PROMISC		YES		Software
-atp		PROMISC		PROMISC		YES		Software
-cs89x0		YES		YES		YES		Software
-de4x5		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-de600		NO		NO		NO		N/A
-de620		PROMISC		PROMISC		YES		Software
-depca		YES		PROMISC		YES		Hardware
-e2100		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-eepro		YES		PROMISC		YES		Hardware
-eexpress	NO		NO		NO		N/A
-ewrk3		YES		PROMISC		YES		Hardware
-hp-plus		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-hp		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-hp100		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-ibmtr		NO		NO		NO		N/A
-lance		YES		YES		YES		Software(#)
-ne		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-ni52		<------------------ Buggy ------------------>
-ni65		YES		YES		YES		Software(#)
-seeq		NO		NO		NO		N/A
-sk_g16		NO		NO		YES		N/A
-smc-ultra	YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-sunlance	YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-tulip		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-wavelan		YES		PROMISC		YES		Hardware
-wd		YES		YES		YES		Hardware
-znet		YES		YES		YES		Software
-
-
-PROMISC = This multicasts mode is in fact promiscuous mode. Avoid using
-cards who go PROMISC on any multicast in a multicast kernel.
-(#) = Hardware multicast support is not used yet.

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