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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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