At 07/11/2001, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >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.
oltr0: <Olicom PCI/II 16/4 Adapter (OC-3137)> port 0xd000-0xd03f irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 oltr0: MAC address 00:00:83:2b:63:db ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:50:ba:ee:48:38, type NE2000 (16 bit) orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc9fff on isa0 [...] freebsd:/home/gmarco> ifconfig -a oltr0: flags=143<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 1500 [...] ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 [...] Here I have the same situation. Even if the card seems to works smoothly. I had also a lot of problems with ipfw ... Do you use any kind of firewall ? If yes can you tell me your experiences ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
