Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:42:19 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: token ring cards always PROMISC Message-ID: <200111071429.fA7ET6238747@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107062520.05665790@mail.Go2France.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107062520.05665790@mail.Go2France.com>
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On Wednesday 07 November 2001 13:29, Len Conrad wrote: > Sorry to bother you here. No answers from -questions or > -tokenring. > > We didn't turn it on, we can't get PROMISC mode off. The card > otherwise works fine. > > Is it a problem to leave in that mode? > > ----------------- > > forwarded from the other lists: > > Hi list, > > When we bring up the 3137 (or 3140), itīs always in PROMISC > mode. This didnīt occur on a 4.2R machine where we DL'ed the > driver ourselves (rather than use the kernel driver of 4.4R or > ourselves) and has been running +one year error free. > The driver turns it on by default in the init routine. If you don't want it then you'll have to modify the driver yourself. I don't know _why_ the driver does that, so modify it at your own risk. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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