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On 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
> >
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