Subject: Re: problems with wi driver in promiscuous mode under heavy load?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/10/2003 15:41:48
In message <20031110213808.A26674@vaasje.org>, Frank van der Linden writes:
>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.
>
What's odd is that this is the first time I've had such problems, and I
haven't updated my card in a long time.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb