On Tuesday 03 August 2004 02:49, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> On a 2.0 beta machine, I've been trying to run my wi card -- a Lucent
> card -- in promiscuous mode while tracking down some infected Windoze
> machines.  The network here at the IETF meeting is quite busy; possibly
> as a result, the card frequently drops and reaquires carrier.  (I have
> some patches by David Young that let me monitor that card via ifwatchd,
> so I see all of the transitions.)

I'm not sure about the Lucent firmware, but I know that the Intersil firmware 
has a tendency to get very slow and moderately unusable when promiscuous mode 
is enabled.  I looked at it about a year ago and it does not appear to be a 
driver issue.