Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:10:22 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Joseph Maxwell" <jaymax@ns.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <001801c175d4$110150e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3C012670.8F0FFE0A@ns.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joseph Maxwell >Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:12 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Promiscuous mode? > > >Hello, > >Setting up a LAN behind a DSL Router on a 486 -DX2 Box: BSD 4.2 >for network card > > dmesg ==> > > ed0: device timeout > ed0: promiscuous mode enabled > >What is promiscuous mode ? > This indicates the ability of the NIC to be set to receive all packets that are on the LAN and is used for diagnostic applications like packet analyzers. > >How does one figure out if a card is actually been seen by the >machine. Pinging >to hostname is useless as the packets do not go past "loopback" and needless >to say the machine is invisible to the LAN. > Most likely you have an interrupt set wrong. The NE2000 series (ed0 uses that) and the other cards like the SMC and 3com that are managed by that driver all have a mechanism to set the interrupt to a specific IRQ. Sometimes that interrupt is set by jumpers, other times by a DOS program that you use to configure NVRAM on the card. Whatever it is, the IRQ set into the driver and the IRQ set into the card must match. Generally it's most useful for you to include your ENTIRE dmesg when mailing the list. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >lsdev does not help either. > >Thanks. > >-- Joe -- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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