The multicast receive status for a particular
interface. The value enabled(1) signifies that
reception of multicast frames by the MAC sublayer
is enabled on said interface. The value
disabled(2) signifies that reception of multicast
frames by the MAC sublayer is not enabled on said
interface.
Each alteration of an instance of this object to
the value enabled(1) is analogous to an invocation
of the enableMulticastReceive action defined in
[9] and has the effect of enabling multicast frame
reception on the associated interface. Actual
reception of multicast frames is only possible on
an interface when the values for the associated
instances of the dot3MulticastReceiveStatus and
dot3MacSubLayerStatus objects are enabled(1) and
enabled(1), respectively.
Each alteration of an instance of this object to
the value disabled(2) is analogous to an
invocation of the disableMulticastReceive action
defined in [9] and has the effect of inhibiting
multicast frame reception on the associated
interface.