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Oh, I hate it when I do that.

It's known as ep0, of course.

Anybody else got a promiscuous 3c589d?

When I try to enable bridging, it shuts down my ep0 networking entirely,
so I lose all my networking; if I unplug & plug the card it gets address
0.0.0.0, presumably because DHCP fails; and if I try to turn off
bridging after the fact, the machine hangs hard & I have to power off.


PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it is
*much* less stable than Linux.  It's crashed -way- more than Linux ever
did; more even than Windows does at work (of course I push Windows a lot
less).  And I've had it lose files a couple of times when it came back
up after a hard crash like that.

Is this at all normal?
Is it at all normal for folks with laptops?


The Babbler wrote:
> 
> I am trying to get vmware going and having all sorts of trouble with
> networking.
> 
> It has finally occured to me that the problem *may* be with my ethernet
> interface, which is a 3com PCMCIA ethernet card, the 3c589d combo card,
> device ed0.
         ep0
> 
> The freebsd handbook says to see the man page for devices that arene't
> supported for bridge; the man page says that
> 
>      Interfaces that cannot be put into promiscuous mode or that don't
>    support sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are 
>    not compatible with bridging.
> 
> I don't have any idea if this is true of the 3c589d, or even how to find
> out.
> 
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