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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:19:36 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? 
Message-ID:  <200103120419.f2C4JbI31972@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:09:39 EST." <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> 
References:  <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org>  

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In message <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> The Babbler writes:
: 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.

3c589d card uses the ep driver.

: 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.

I know that the ep driver supports promiscuous mode.  I don't know if
it can send packets with arbitrary ethrnet source addresses.

Warner

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