The following reply was made to PR kern/34517; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: gson@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson)
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/34517 (re(4) drops all traffic in promiscuous mode)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:56:13 +0200

 Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 > In re_init(), mii_mediachg() is called and it seems to take
 > a few seconds till PHY is settled.
 > (you could see it by link LEDs)
 > 
 > I'm not sure if such mii_mediachg() is always required on
 > initialization, but how about the attached patch?
 
 With the patch, the problem is gone - traffic flows normally across
 the switch to promiscuous mode.  I also verified that the interface is
 in fact receiving traffic promiscuously when requested.
 -- 
 Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org