In message <20210919001818.8bf857a0...@apps0.cs.toronto.edu>I wrote:
>I dug out my old cubieboard (the original Allwinner A10 version) and put
>openbsd 6.9 on it. It works fine except for one thing: the network card
>(sxie0) doesn't seem to be able to see any broadcast packets.  This breaks
>arp: nothing can talk to the cubieboard over the network until the cubieboard
>first talks to it.
>
>"tcpdump -i sxie0 broadcast" shows nothing despite plenty of broadcast
>packets on the network.

I tried a realtek USB to ethernet adapter, just to see if the problem is
specific to the sxie driver. The realtek works (broadcasts are visible,
arp works) so I suspect it is an sxie driver issue.

Regards,

John
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