Version 2.31 of their software supports the card, and the firmware of
the card supports promiscuous mode. Output from the Madge utility
"trconfig" and "ifconfig" follows:
# ./trconfig
Madge Diagnostics v1.1
Copyright (c) 1999 Madge Networks Ltd
Device: tr0
Driver version: 2.31.0
Driver ID: MadgeLinux 2.31
Card: Madge Smart 16/4 PCI Ringnode Mk2
PCI Info: Bus 0 Device 11 Function 0
IO Base: 5000
IRQ: 11
Max Frame Size: 12000
RX Slots: 4
TX Slots: 4
Burnt in Address: 0000F6B7F2CF
LAA: 0000F6B7F2CF
Upstream Neighbour: 0000F6CACBC1
Current group: 000000000000
Open Ring Speed: 16 Mbits/s
Connection Type: Classic
Promiscuous level: All LLC and MAC frames
Last Beacon Type: 0x0
Local Ring Number: 0x0
State: Device open (Adapter open)
Ring Status: Normal
Counters
Bytes Frames Dropped Errors
RX 50009 590 0 0
TX 1552 3 0 0
Errors
Line:0 Internal:0 Burst: 0
ARI/FCI:0 Abort Delim:0 Lost Frame: 0
Congestion:0 Frame Copy:0 Frequency: 0
Token:0 DMA Bus:0 DMA Parity: 0
# /sbin/ifconfig tr0
tr0 Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring HWaddr 00:00:F6:B7:F2:CF
inet addr:32.73.75.226 Bcast:32.73.75.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:1223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x5000
> Are you certain that the card's firmware allows promiscuous mode?
Some
> Madge cards purport to disable it by default; I don't know if that
means
> that the Windows driver requires you to tweak a registry setting for
the
> driver (which would have no effect on Linux) or if you actually have
to
> tweak something in some kind of NVRAM on the card (which presumably
> would affect all operating systems).
>
> You should check with Madge on this (and note to them that you're not
> running Windows).
-
This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at
http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html
To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
