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From: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette)
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: Getting tcpdump to work with the BPF
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> From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
> Subject: Re: Getting tcpdump to work with the BPF
> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 21:12:50 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> 
> > 
> > In article <406pje$3tu@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
> > Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > >You're not missing anything: it's the Intel EtherExpress 'ix' driver
> > >that's missing something. It doesn't yet include BPF support.
> > 
> > Although I know nothing about the EtherExpress in particular, I know what
> > BPF needs; these patches *should* do the trick.
> > 
> 
> Except they fail to put the card into promiscous mode :-(.
> 
> Some one else has been passed work passed to me that had some rather serious
> lock up bugs and is working on this.  I hope they pick this bit up here,
> as this looks rather clean as far as the tap off.
> 
> Putting in EEXP16 into and out of promiscous mode is no simple thing to 
> do though, and I am reasonably sure that is where the bugs in the other
> patches sent to me are at.
> 


Does anyone have the docs for this card? I've got on to hack and test with
but no docs to start hacking from.

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