Re: ext2 errors

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 21:26:12 +0100 (BST)

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> Is it possible an ethernet card accidentally left in promiscuous mode (I
> think Red Hat's tcpdump is buggy) could cause bad interactions with the
No tcpdump tends to do this. The RH4 one shouldnt tho.

> NCR SCSI card? I noticed today that eth0 was in promiscuous mode...I
> often use tcpdump to sniff on this system, but haven't today.

For the ethercard to fall out with the NCR would really require a hardware
bug like corruption on back to back DMA from different targets - possible
but improbable and almost impossible to find out

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