The 8168B (02) NIC works well except that it does not go into promiscuous
mode despite advertising itself in that mode after being so directed with
ifconfig. Unfortunately, the little box is destined to be an IDS monitor, so that
function is essential. The board is an Intel Atom 330 run as x86_64, the nic
is
internal.
We tried three drivers: the one in the 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 kernel yields a
high
count of dropped packets (known problem), and the drivers from Realtek
and
El Repo. None solve the promiscuous problem (although they fix the funny
dropped counter issue).
Apparently the chip has no MII capability either.
Anyone have any idea as how to make this chip do the promiscuous mode
thing other than adding another nic card ?
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