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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:08:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4-STABLE, wi and promiscuous mode
Message-ID:  <200102220308.f1M38DF09766@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010221214854.D27776@diskfarm.firehouse.net>

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>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:48:54 -0500
>From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>

>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.

For whatever it might possibly be worth, I don't seem to have that
problem with an "an" device (Cisco 340) on a 4.2-S system as of 08
February.

Cheers,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to
advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal
amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product.

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