Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org, ed@fxq.nl, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly Message-ID: <20061129232331.8E55016A415@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20061129002008.GA71523@cdnetworks.co.kr> from Pyun YongHyeon at "Nov 29, 2006 09:20:08 am"
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> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the > > following hardware: > > > > - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 > > - Asus P5B motherboard > > - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B) > > > > For some reason, it drops all incoming IPv6 packets. I can only SSH to > > the machine using IPv6 when I run the following command: > > > > $ ifconfig re0 promisc > > > > Is this a known issue about these NICs? > > No, I'm not aware of the issue. > > The issue can happen on a NIC with incorrectly programmed ethernet > address. Would you show me dmesg/tcpdump output of your system? > Make sure to add -e option to tcpdump(1). It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though. I've tested the sample 8168B/8111B cards that RealTek sent me, and I didn't have any multicast problems with them. -Bill > > > > Yours, > > -- > > Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> > > WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon >
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