On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:24, master@tentacle.nmd.msu.ru wrote:
> I use etherexpress NIC as a bridge port. I have noticed inclusion
> of e100 driver into 2.4.20-pre kernel and decided to test it.
> It seems to me that promisc mode doesn't work with e100 driver:
> tcpdump never shows unicast frames destined to MACs other than
> that of the NIC.
Here's a fix for this bug. I'll get this into 2.4.20-pre through Jeff
Garzik, along with some other (unrelated) fixes.
-scott
diff -Nuarp linux-2.4.20-pre2/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c linux-2.4.20-pre2-e100/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c
--- linux-2.4.20-pre2/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c Fri Aug 16 12:47:23 2002
+++ linux-2.4.20-pre2-e100/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c Fri Aug 16 12:50:17 2002
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ e100_set_multi(struct net_device *dev)
if (bdp->driver_isolated) {
goto exit;
}
- promisc_enbl = (dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC);
+ promisc_enbl = ((dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) == IFF_PROMISC);
mulcast_enbl = ((dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) ||
(dev->mc_count > MAX_MULTICAST_ADDRS));
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