Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:33:07 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi problem with promiscuous mode Message-ID: <20011018113307.W65676@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011018171316.A18653@gvr.gvr.org>; from guido@gvr.org on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:13:16PM %2B0200 References: <20011018171316.A18653@gvr.gvr.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> [011018 10:13] wrote:
>
> I have a wi card that is used with a base station. We have a netname set
> and are using the 'silver' encryption mode. Everything works great
> but when I put the card in promiscuous mode, it seems that the card
> gets into troubles. Some packets seem not to be sent anymore and some
> seem not be received anymore. We compared tcpdumps on 2 laptops
> and we haven't figured out which packets are haing these problems though.
>
> I also occasionally get:
> wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0; last status ffff
>
> I am not sure if that is related though.
>
> Can others verify this? Btw: it seems that the d-link card does not
> go into this random problem mode.
>
> The base station is an airport.
I have a wi type card (Addtron) in a PCI slot in one of my computers,
I find that sometimes inserting a card into a BSD machine can cause
_all_ the other BSD boxes on the wireless LAN to lock up solid.
I'm interested in debugging it, but I don't have the time right
now.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011018113307.W65676>