[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 8/8] net: e1000 enable multicast reception

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> IPv6 neighbor discovery uses various multicast addresses to send the
> request and receive the response. For neighbor discovery to work
> properly in U-boot the Ethernet device needs to support joining/leaving
> various L2 multicast groups or it needs to support multicast/promiscuous
> mode. For the sake of simplicity the latter approach has been taken. The
> e1000 hardware has slightly finer grained control in that it is possible
> to enable support for multicast-promiscuous mode separately from unicast
> so the extra traffic received is less.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>