From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 11 20:19:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6D637B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2C4JbI31972; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:19:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103120419.f2C4JbI31972@harmony.village.org> To: The Babbler Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:09:39 EST." <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> References: <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:19:36 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message