Re: wlan/lan and multicast

> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I'm brand new to the list so excuse me if this is a repeat, eventhough I was 
> searching the archive for quite a while.
> OK, my question is the following :
> I have 2 interfaces, one WLAN and one LAN connected to the same network 
> 130.230.50.0, so they have the same gateway (130.230.50.1).
> Is it possible to receive multicast address i.e 239.252.10.1 from wlan0 and 
> i.e 239.252.12.1 from eth0 at the same time ??
> I tried and so far couldn't get it work. When both interface are up at the 
> same time, multicast will only be received on the interface that first went 
> up.
> Of course, to do that I used the route command (i.e route add -host 
> 239.252.10.1 dev wlan0, etc ... eth1)
> 

I'm not sure this issue is really driver related - probably
more in the linux IP stack somewhere.

> My wlan interface is ipw2100.
> 
The linux-wlan list only covers driver issues for a narrow
range of 802.11b capable chipsets. The ipw2100 falls outside
this area.

You are probably better off on a linux general networking
alias.

Karl

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