Fwd: Question about LiS

>From: =?ks_c_5601-1987?B?udrB1siv?= <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: Question about LiS
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:28:24 +0900
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>Hi~
>I am a programmer from Korea. So please forgive me about my poor English.
>
>I am working on some project of multicasting based on LiS.
>But my code was not working as my wishes, so I looked into LiS code.
>And I found that there is no check for registered multicast address in 
>eth_ii_want() in ldl.c, while there is in eth_8022_want().
>
>Is there some reason about this?
>
>I copied and pasted the checking code on eth_ii_want() and it worked.
>
>STATIC int eth_ii_want(struct dl *dl, unsigned char *fr, int len)
>{
>....
>     if (!memcmp(fr, dl->ndev->dev->dev_addr, 6))
>         return 1;
>     if (!memcmp(fr, dl->ndev->dev->broadcast, 6))
>         return 1;
>
>     /*
>      * Check the registered multicast address list ...
>      * pasted from eth_8022_want().
>      */
>
>     struct dev_mc_list *dmi = dl->ndev->dev->mc_list;
>     while (dmi != NULL)
>     {
>         if (!memcmp(fr, dmi->dmi_addr, 6))
>                return 1;
>         else dmi = dmi->next;
>     }
>     return 0;
>}
>
>Please tell me why there is no checking code for registered multicast 
>address in eth_ii_want().
>
>Thanks,
>JooHwan.