Re: multicast?

[Pascal Hos <paashaas@rice.edu>]

You should type: ifconfig eth0 -multicast up

Pascal Hos
paashaas@rice.edu

On Monday 26 February 2001 01:38, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> hi all,
>
> oldnews:/home/marcadrian# ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:21:C9:94:8D
>           inet addr:203.63.219.1  Bcast:203.63.219.127 
> Mask:255.255.255.128 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>
> oldnews:/home/marcadrian# ifconfig eth0 -allmulti up
> oldnews:/home/marcadrian# ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:21:C9:94:8D
>           inet addr:203.63.219.1  Bcast:203.63.219.127 
> Mask:255.255.255.128 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>
> shouldnt the MULTICAST part dissapear if ive specified no multicast? i want
> to rid my network of multicast because im sure someone is flooding it with
> multicast traffic, so if i can disable multicast on this interface i can
> rid myself of the problem ;-)
>
> can anyone help?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc-Adrian Napoli
> Network Administrator
> Connect infobahn Australia
> +61 2 92120387