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Subject: fxp0, fxp1 falling into promiscuous mode ?
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Hi,

I run my FBSD Box as a gateway for my internal network on ipf and ipnat. (
with rdr rules set as port forwarding )
After changing my NICs to Compaq NC3134, dual ports Intel 82559 Server NIC,
I found that the NICs sometimes fell into promiscuous mode when I log into
the console.

The system sometimes shows up
fxp0 promiscuous mode enabled
fxp0 promiscuous mode disabled
fxp1 promiscuous mode enabled
fxp1 promiscuous mode disabled
....
in this way in between.

I have a win2000 box in the internal network running edonkey with a lot of
connection. The compaq server Nic is supposed to be very stable. I wonder if
it was caused by too many concurrent connection on the Win2000 box causing
this problem.

My FBSD Box runs on FreeBSD 5.1 Release. I don't know if it is the driver
issue.

Does it have any side effect that the system keeps showing the messages ?

Thanks!

Michael Lee