From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 12 13:41:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09351 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09324; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20158; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jim Mercer cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem using 3 x znyx314 cards for 12 de ethernets In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Jim Mercer wrote: > > i have a machine that has been running quite nicely with two znyx314 cards > in it. > > recently, i added a third card, giving de8, de9, de10, de11. > > using 2.2.7-RELEASE, everything looks fine, no errors from the kernel or > the ifconfigs in /etc/rc... > > once the machine is up, i send a ping the the broadcast address of one of the > new ports, and the only response is from the interface itself. Broadcast pings are ignored by default in 2.2.7 -- it's a common DoS attack to flood ping the broadcast address. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message