Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:20:20 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org> References: <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org>
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Oh, I hate it when I do that.
It's known as ep0, of course.
Anybody else got a promiscuous 3c589d?
When I try to enable bridging, it shuts down my ep0 networking entirely,
so I lose all my networking; if I unplug & plug the card it gets address
0.0.0.0, presumably because DHCP fails; and if I try to turn off
bridging after the fact, the machine hangs hard & I have to power off.
PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it is
*much* less stable than Linux. It's crashed -way- more than Linux ever
did; more even than Windows does at work (of course I push Windows a lot
less). And I've had it lose files a couple of times when it came back
up after a hard crash like that.
Is this at all normal?
Is it at all normal for folks with laptops?
The Babbler wrote:
>
> I am trying to get vmware going and having all sorts of trouble with
> networking.
>
> It has finally occured to me that the problem *may* be with my ethernet
> interface, which is a 3com PCMCIA ethernet card, the 3c589d combo card,
> device ed0.
ep0
>
> The freebsd handbook says to see the man page for devices that arene't
> supported for bridge; the man page says that
>
> Interfaces that cannot be put into promiscuous mode or that don't
> support sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are
> not compatible with bridging.
>
> I don't have any idea if this is true of the 3c589d, or even how to find
> out.
>
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