-- -- +----- William Aoki -------- waoki@raven.umnh.utah.edu ----------------+ | aka William.Aoki@m.cc.utah.edu http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/~waoki/ | # N 40 46.668' W 111 52.056 My signature exceeds the recommended 4 lines! # *** I do not speak for my employer, and my employer dosen't speak for me *** +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "History is not about learning. It is about doing essays." -- found in the margins of my history bookOn Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:25:47 -0400 > From: Matthew Marlowe <mmarlowe@methodfive.com> > To: Aaron Passey <aaronp@ofb.net> > Cc: mlist-linux-kernel@nntp-server.caltech.edu > Subject: Re: Appletalk in the kernel causes garbage ethernet packets > > Aaron, > > 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. > > Matt > > Aaron Passey wrote: > > > > I have been playing around with Netatalk for a while now and have > > been having serious problems with it. Soon after I start running Netatalk, > > my machine starts spewing huge numbers of completely corrupted packets. It > > doesn't spew continuously -- every few minute (from 1 minute to an hour) it > > sends out a burst. I don't have a dump of the packets but I have looked at > > them. Even the source ethernet address is random. The spew takes up maybe > > 1/4 of the bandwidth of our 100base-T network. Even after killing > > Netatalk, the packet spewing continues until I reboot the machine. > > > > I have tried this on single and dual processor machines, with all > > of the 2.2 kernels (including 2.2.5 with its small appletalk fix), and with > > three different versions of the netatalk daemon (1.3.3, 1.4b2, and > > 1.4b2+asun2.1.3). My netcard is the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100. The card > > is hooked to a 10/100 switch. I've tried PII and K6 computers. > > > > Has anyone else run into this problem? Is anyone else sucessfully > > using Netatalk with the 2.2 kernels and hardware similar to mine? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Aaron > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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