From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 25 23:50:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5568714EE0; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:50:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id QAA11748; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:49:52 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36D64342.535BC758@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:46:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: "(Jim Mercer)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with the ep (ethernet) driver? 2.2.[67] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > 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. I suspect you might be remembering a thread concerning broadcasts and bad netmasks. The broadcasts were not being received because the netmask was incorrect. When you put the card in promiscuous mode, the netmask ceased to be relevant, and the broadcasts were received. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "To make it absolutely clear: you stand on the wrong end of my blasters, so you better get lost before I start target practice!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message