Maximum MAC multicast filters?

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Maximum MAC multicast filters? googlegroups 10-05-2005
Posted by on October 5, 2005, 8:48 am
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Greetings!

There are 2^23 MAC layer multicast addresses.

How many of these addresses can the hardware filters in a typical NIC
handle?

Will a NIC fail into some sort of limited (multicast) promiscuous mode
when I exceed that number?

Will it perhaps fall into full-blown promiscuous mode when I exceed
that number?

What is the name of this parameter? I'd like to be able to find it on
spec sheets (or at least google), but I'm not even sure of what to call
it.

Many thanks.

/chris



NMFall 20%
Posted by News Me on October 5, 2005, 5:47 pm
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googlegroups@marget.com wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> There are 2^23 MAC layer multicast addresses.

A single bit in the 48-bit MAC address determines whether the address is
unicast or multicast. I think that implies there are a theoretical 2^47
MAC-layer multicast addresses.

NM

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Posted by James Knott on October 5, 2005, 9:24 pm
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News Me wrote:

> googlegroups@marget.com wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> There are 2^23 MAC layer multicast addresses.
>
> A single bit in the 48-bit MAC address determines whether the address is
> unicast or multicast. I think that implies there are a theoretical 2^47
> MAC-layer multicast addresses.

Isn't there another one for ethernet/token ring? That means there'd be only
2^46 total addresses. That's barely enough to go 'round. ;-)


Posted by anoop on October 6, 2005, 1:01 am
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James Knott wrote:
> News Me wrote:
>
> > googlegroups@marget.com wrote:
> >> Greetings!
> >>
> >> There are 2^23 MAC layer multicast addresses.
> >
> > A single bit in the 48-bit MAC address determines whether the address is
> > unicast or multicast. I think that implies there are a theoretical 2^47
> > MAC-layer multicast addresses.
>
> Isn't there another one for ethernet/token ring? That means there'd be only
> 2^46 total addresses. That's barely enough to go 'round. ;-)

No there isn't. MAC addresses are the same regardless of the media.

Anoop



Posted by James Knott on October 6, 2005, 12:04 pm
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anoop wrote:

>> Isn't there another one for ethernet/token ring? That means there'd be
>> only
>> 2^46 total addresses. That's barely enough to go 'round. ;-)
>
> No there isn't. MAC addresses are the same regardless of the media.
>

Sorry, my mistake. I was thinking of the locally assigned address bit.
LAAs are (were?) commonly used on token ring.



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