I'm sorry to repeat myself here but this is a critical blocking issue
for us. I really hope someone can tell me how to receive these packets.
Synopsis: Packets which arrive correctly on Broadcom and several other
ports are not received on Intel ports. Here's the problem description.
I have a
I have a Fedora 20 machine which is receiving UDP broadcast packets at
regular intervals on a high port. I have a program which is trying to
receive these packets and failing to do so. As part of the bug
investigation, I checked to see of Ncat would receive them. It also doesn't.
If I run,
Abodunrin, Akeem G wrote:
Intel E1G44ET NICs would drop this kind of invalid packet in the promisc
mode,
because length field in the packet is set to 846 but the packet length on the
wire is actually 842.
In addition, Broadcom NICs did not allow the packets either, but raised an
error
Intel E1G44ET installed in Dell R410 running Fedora with kernel 2.6.32
x86_64 and driver igb 3.0.22 built from Intel source code.
The interface should be receiving multicast Ethernet (not IP) packets
addressed to MAC 01:80:C2:00:00:0F, once per second. When sent to the
motherboard Broadcom
