Subject: Re: thinkpad?
To: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/16/2004 19:27:44
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:32:09PM -0700, Simon Gerraty wrote:
> I noticed though that dhclient couldn't get a lease using wm0.
> In fact even configuring it manually (after killing off dhclient)
> I could not get any traffic out of it.
> 
> BUT as soon as I ran tcpdump on it - it started working.
> This hints that there's some extra initialization step needed.
> (hopefully putting it into/outof promiscuous mode isn't it ;-)

dhclient does not put the interface into promiscuous mode?

Dave

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