From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 7 6:29:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.de (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260E937B416 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 161Tho-0006AV-07; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:29:28 +0100 Received: from peedub.muc.de (520017439985-0001@[217.228.214.89]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 161Thf-1fJACOC; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 15:29:19 +0100 Received: by peedub.muc.de (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fA7ET6238747; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 15:29:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj) Message-Id: <200111071429.fA7ET6238747@peedub.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Jennejohn Reply-To: garyj@jennejohn.org To: Len Conrad , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: token ring cards always PROMISC Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:42:19 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107062520.05665790@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107062520.05665790@mail.Go2France.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 07 November 2001 13:29, Len Conrad wrote: > Sorry to bother you here. No answers from -questions or > -tokenring. > > We didn't turn it on, we can't get PROMISC mode off. The card > otherwise works fine. > > Is it a problem to leave in that mode? > > ----------------- > > forwarded from the other lists: > > Hi list, > > When we bring up the 3137 (or 3140), itīs always in PROMISC > mode. This didnīt occur on a 4.2R machine where we DL'ed the > driver ourselves (rather than use the kernel driver of 4.4R or > ourselves) and has been running +one year error free. > The driver turns it on by default in the init routine. If you don't want it then you'll have to modify the driver yourself. I don't know _why_ the driver does that, so modify it at your own risk. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message