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From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Want Lance chip hashalgorithm (CRC)
Message-ID: <2262@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Apr 89 12:27:55 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The AMD Lance Ethernet chip(and others) perform a hashing function on incoming
multicast packets that hash the 48 bit multicast address to a 6 bit(0-63)
value. Does anyone have the algorithm used? (preferrably ofcourse as debugged C)

Thanks in advance,
	Hans van Staveren
	Vrije Universiteit
	Amsterdam, Holland