From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 24 15:48:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74F414C0A; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.127]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA4820; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:13:01 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01443; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:13:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:13:05 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: (Jim Mercer) Subject: RE: problems with the ep (ethernet) driver? 2.2.[67] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Feb-99 Jim Mercer wrote: > > oddly enough, if i fire up a tcpdump on the core router ep interface, > packets start flowing instantly. > > my feeling is that for some reason, kicking the ep driver into > promiscuous mode causes gated to retrun to normal operation. Correct assumption. > is there some bug with the ep driver, and promiscuous mode? > or is it possibly a bug in gated, misinterpreting the ep driver? It isn't a bug in gated I think since the packet stream gets initialised by kicking it into promiscuous mode like ye said. This is a driver problem. I do remember a thread about a likewise problem, but cannot for the gods remember which forum it was. Try a search of questions and net with promiscuous mode as the search key. I'll try and see what I can find myself. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org> asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message