From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Feb 21 19: 8:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D0C37B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f1M38DF09766 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:08:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:08:13 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200102220308.f1M38DF09766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-STABLE, wi and promiscuous mode In-Reply-To: <20010221214854.D27776@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:48:54 -0500 >From: Alan Clegg >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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message