Re: ethernet problems

Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> Sat, 15 May 2004 00:11:58 +0159
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:12:20PM -0700, Nate wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>    I've been having problems with my ethernet on my
> Quadra 660av, using the onboard ethernet (MACE mc0). 
> The computer is able to recieve a address via DHCP,
> but then after that it suddenly can't 'hear' any
> network traffic unless it's in promisc mode.  The
> ethernet works, I've tried it in MacOS without a
> problem.  I've checked and double checked the routing
> tables, the mygate, hostname.if entries and done
> everything the INSTALL document mentions, with no
> avail.  I found another mention of this in the
> newgroup in 2001, I have pasted it below.  No one
> responded to the problem.  If anyone can help me I
> would really appreciate it.
> 

Had the same problem but no time to debug it. The device works only in
promisc mode so start a "tcpdump -i mc0 -n -w /dev/null &" and suddenly
the networks starts to work.

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:wq Claudio