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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:23:40 EDT
From:      Bsdguru@aol.com
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_sf bug
Message-ID:  <127.50f2d20.28ed141c@aol.com>

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In a message dated 10/03/2001 8:14:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu writes:

> > The if_sf driver doesnt seem to initialize itself until an address is set,
>  > which makes things like tcpdump, bridging and other promiscuous things 
not
>  > work.
>  
>  All the interfaces do that.  If you want to make an invisible interface,
>  configure it with IP 0.0.0.0.
>  

They dont "all do that". the fxp and dc drivers work fine when setting 
promiscuous mode from within the kernel,the sf doesnt. 


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