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>What interface hardware/driver was this?

solaris, actually.  i was merely asking here because people here are
really smart.

>This is probably the wreckage from a collision.

that was my guess too.  i was just hoping for someone to back me up on
it.

>At least some drivers program the cards to return *everything* they
>get in promiscuous mode, including runts and packets with bad CRC's.

sure.  and that's either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on
whether you want it or not.  :)

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