From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:53:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2428616A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:53:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D9E43D58 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:53:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5514 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2004 01:53:36 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 17 Sep 2004 01:53:36 -0000 Received: from slimer.baldwin.cx (slimer.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.16]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8H1rNN4002471; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:53:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:00:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <41462D29.2020304@jara23.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41462D29.2020304@jara23.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409161500.23961.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Andrew Wiles Subject: Re: de0 driver bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:53:37 -0000 On Monday 13 September 2004 07:28 pm, Andrew Wiles wrote: > There seems to be an issue with de0 driver in 5.3-BETA4 > The problem seems to be the driver doesn't allow traffic, or minimal > traffic at best unless it is set in promiscious mode. > Initially I thought it may have been a problem with my firewall ruleset > but as they hadn't changed since I upgraded from 5.2.1-p9 I doubted it. > > To test if my firewall was blocking the traffic i used tcpdump which > instantly brought the interface and traffic to life, upon terminating > tcpdump all traffic ceased. > putting the interface into promisious mode using ifconfig de0 promisc > instantly resumed the flow of traffic. > > If any more information is needed about my configuration or any further > details are required I can provide them on request. The de0 in my Alpha seems to perform very poorly unless I turn mpsafenet off. Are you seeing similar behavior? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org