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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:02:06 +1100
From:      Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
To:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
Cc:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network stops working
Message-ID:  <3A7104CE.3EF662AD@quake.com.au>
References:  <20010125195256.67841201@woodstock.monkey.net>

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> At home: gets IP address from DHCP server fine.  Can connect to various
> other machines on the subnet ok.  Can ssh to various machines both on the
> home LAN and outside the NATted subnet, but cannot connect from other machines
> to the laptop.  Packets come in, but for some reason (according to both
> the ipfw logs and tcpdump) the kernel on the laptop doesn't seem to respond
> with outgoing packets at all.  The firewall is not blocking the packets; they
> don't even get that far (tested by logging all traffic to/from all interfaces
> on the laptop).  This bizarreness holds for TCP and ICMP traffic.  The odd
> thing is, for "outgoing" connections (ssh from laptop to server) everything
> is fine; traffic moves just fine both directions.

This sounds like the driver isnt detecting the MAC address correctly...
There was a problem with some new netgear and cards that used the same
chip recently like that, it has been fixed but maybe this is a new one...
You should probably file a PR about it since its only in the newer stable!


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