> It looks as though EVERYONE on my local segment of the ethernet leg
> is now in my ARP cache. I seem to be receiving everyone's packets!
>
> Routing is turned ON during compile, but not enabled. My ethernet sniffer
> does not show any duplication of packets, so I am sure that the machine
> is not routing anything.
When it is turned on in the compile it is pretty much enabled, but someone
has to send you something to route, and it shouldn't cause that problem
What type of ethernet card is this, some cards go into promiscous mode
when running with multicast. check drivers/net/README.multicast
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:97 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:97 overruns:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:00:12:35:99
> inet addr:204.178.40.224 Bcast:204.178.40.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:5058913 errors:32629 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:233544 dropped:2603 overruns:0
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300