From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 23 12:51:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA11302 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA11288 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0x2MBR-0004oG-00; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:49:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C509B Card In-Reply-To: <199708231622.JAA08525@cwsys.cwent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Cy Schubert wrote: > I think I got my answer from the 3Com website. > > Question: Can the EtherLink III family of adapters operate in promiscuous > mode? > > Answer: All EtherLink III family adapters are certified for promiscuous > mode. However, the parallel task feature of these adapters does not support > the promiscuous mode since it drops the bad packets before it gets to the > CPU. Not really. Most cards (all?) handle retransmits internally these days. However, I don't belive the Etherlink driver is reading the count off the card. Some of the other drivers use to report 0 for collisions as well, until the driver was educated on where to read the collision count from. > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) > ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET > Government of BC Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca > cschuber@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca > > "Quit spooling around, JES do it." Tom