[vortex] network slow w/25% Broadcasts

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Does/can a data:broadcast frame ratio of about 3:1 (sending, along with 5%
> > multicast and a few collisions) hint at a specific problem?
> 
> Not really.  This driver handles multicast by going promiscuous, so
> there will be some extra load...

I think that Andrew meant to say that the driver doesn't use the
questionable hardware multicast filter, but that it put the receiver
into the Rx-all-multicast mode.  Not that it switches into promiscuous
mode for non-multicast packets.



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