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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:48:54 -0500
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4-STABLE, wi and promiscuous mode
Message-ID:  <20010221214854.D27776@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010221213343.B25842@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:33:43PM -0500
References:  <20010221213343.B25842@pir.net>

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Peter Radcliffe said: 
> I've noticed relatively recently (I hadn't used promiscuous mode on
> this machine for a while before that) if I put the wavelan interface
> on my laptop into promiscuous mode I stop seeing any network traffic
> shortly afterwards and it doesn't stop until I remove/reinsert the
> pcmcia card.
> 
> Killing the program and returning to non-promiscuous doesn't help.

I saw this at USENIX in San Diego, but the network would come back if
I took it out of promiscuous mode.  It only happens in infrastructure
mode (I run ad-hoc here at home and have no problems at all).  If anyone
will send me a base station, I'll be happy to test in infrastructure mode.

AlanC

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