Hmmn... if you're snooping on the same machine, the
act of snooping, in promiscuous mode, may have had
an effect on the interface.
Mind you, it isn't **supposed** to, but the observer
effect applies to hardware as well as people (;-))
Snoop from a different machine on the same wire
(you may need
I recently installed b71 for a SAMBA Server. The network driver in use is rge.
While doing some SAMBA tests I discovered very poor performance. I hooked up a
100Mbit switch and was only able to get around 5Mbits transfer rate.
Playing around with it, I found out that 'snooping' the device seams