Subject: Re: problems with wi driver in promiscuous mode under heavy load?
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/10/2003 21:38:08
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:31:27PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> When trying to monitor the wireless net at the IETF, I've been finding 
> that my network connectivity dies.  When I exit the monitoring program, 
> things come alive again.  Is this a known problem?  I'm running 1.6.1

Werent' there some firmware revisions that didn't properly support
promiscuous mode? I seem to recall this being mentioned somewhere
last year.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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