Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 10:16:46 +0900 From: itojun@itojun.org To: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ep.c on latest PAO Message-ID: <5299.876359806@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: karp's message of Wed, 08 Oct 1997 19:21:38 -0400. <199710082321.TAA24833@pinot.eecs.harvard.edu>
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>The if_ep.c I wind up with when applying the latest PAO patches to 2.2.2- >RELEASE is rather broken with respect to promiscuous mode; specifically, >it passes every packet going by on the wire to the inbound IP path, rather >than noticing that the destination Ethernet address on most packets going >by doesn't merit attention by the local host. I believe this is because 3com ethernet cards have no multicast filtering hardware. >A glance at 3.0-current if_ep.c reveals that it at least does something >different with respect to promiscuous operation and filtering packets received >when in promiscuous mode. I generated diff from 2.2.2-RELEASE and 3.0-current, there was no difference. (am I looking into something different?) (long line splitted into two) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c.diff ?r1=1.53.2.1%3ARELENG_2_2_2_RELEASE&tr1=1.1&r2=1.60%3AHEAD&tr2=1.60&f=c itojun
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