From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:35:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:35:11 -0400 Received: from home.paris.trader.com ([195.68.19.162]:17102 "EHLO smtp-gw.netclub.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:35:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6902C4.9B975BEE@trader.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:35:32 +0200 From: joseph.bueno@trader.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-5mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Guyett CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tulip driver still broken In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Justin Guyett wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 joseph.bueno@trader.com wrote: > > > I am currently using a Xircom Ethernet adapter (tulip_cb module) with a > > 2.4.5 kernel. > > > > The only way I have found to make it work is to turn on promiscuous mode > > (with 'tcpdump -i eth0 -n > /dev/null') after bootup. I can turn it off > > after a few minutes without problem. > > i saw something like that with a wireless ethernet card, but presumed it > to be something wrong with WAP+multicast, plus it doesn't happen with new > card firmware. > > at any rate, this made my card work, and sounds like it would be better > than running tcpdump and killing it after a few minutes. the critical > element in getting things working was getting traffic while the interface > was in promisc mode (arp replies to wrong mac address maybe?) > That's right. In fact, I generally start a ping to a remote IP address after bootup and, if I don't get any response (which is always the case), I start tcpdump and I do some network activity before stopping it. > ifconfig ethX promisc > ping -n -c 5 > ifconfig ethX -promisc In fact, I ran tcpdump to check what was going on and, since it "solved" the problem, I didn't check for a better way to do it. Obviously, your solution is better. > > if you have no traffic for a few minutes, it might break again. Hopefully, there is some periodic network activity on my machine (at least checking of my POP account), so it doesn't break. > > justin Thanks -- Joseph Bueno NetClub/Trader.com