Re: Appletalk in the kernel causes garbage ethernet packets

Aaron Passey (aaronp@ofb.net)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:35:43 -0700

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Matthew B. Marlowe said:
> The problem is your ethernet card. Many of the Intel networking
> cards have to go into promiscuous mode to do multicast properly(
> needed by appletalk). We had the same problem here. Replacing
> the card with a Netgear FA310-TX cleared the problem away
> completely.

Well, we have a FreeBSD machine here that has an Intel EEPro 100
card just like my Linux machines. It runs Netatalk without this problem.
Does this indicate that the EEPro100 driver is broken under Linux?

Aaron

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