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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:46:54 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
To:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   IPX and Tulip needs promiscuous mode ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970415132624.492B-100000@economic>

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			Hi !
	I have FreeBSD 2.2 RELEASE. My FreeBSD box is an Internet gateway
and Samba file server for three LANs. I need an IPX gateway, in two of 
three LANs I have NetWare file servers. 
	My FreeBSD box :
	
 			   ed0 ( NE200)---NetWare 4.1
				|				
	NetWare 3.12----ed1( NE200)
				|
		           de0( DEC21040)-----NetWare clients
	
IPX routing works fine on my FreeBSD, but with following problem:
IPX packets forwards de0 <-> ed0 or de0 <-> ed1 only if on the de0 interface
promiscuous mode is enabled, forwarding through ed1 <-> ed0 works without
promiscuouty on the this interfaces.

	I try the following steps:
	1. I compiled the kernel with 
		options IPX 
		options IPX_PRINTFS=0
		options	IPX_ERRPRINTFS=0
	2. I ifconfig'ured my interfaces according to their correct IPX 
	   network numbers 
	3. I turned MIB variable net.ipx.ipx.ipxforwarding=1
	4. I ran IPXrouted with option -s .
	5. But it works only if I run tcpdump -i de0 or
	   my own program which simply turn promiscuouty on specified network 
	   interface.

	May be Tulip device driver contain some errors? I haven't expirience
to analyze /sys/pci/if_de.c ( 130K ) ;-) .

	Any suggestions?

  Thanks, Vasily .

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