On Monday 13 September 2004 07:28 pm, Andrew Wiles wrote: > There seems to be an issue with de0 driver in 5.3-BETA4 > The problem seems to be the driver doesn't allow traffic, or minimal > traffic at best unless it is set in promiscious mode. > Initially I thought it may have been a problem with my firewall ruleset > but as they hadn't changed since I upgraded from 5.2.1-p9 I doubted it. > > To test if my firewall was blocking the traffic i used tcpdump which > instantly brought the interface and traffic to life, upon terminating > tcpdump all traffic ceased. > putting the interface into promisious mode using ifconfig de0 promisc > instantly resumed the flow of traffic. > > If any more information is needed about my configuration or any further > details are required I can provide them on request. The de0 in my Alpha seems to perform very poorly unless I turn mpsafenet off. Are you seeing similar behavior? -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 23:53:37 UTC
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