Weird network traffic issue with FreeBSD-5.3-Beta 5

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sat Sep 25 13:21:14 PDT 2004


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I'm using a de0 interface (100TX) -- if I try to cvsup, it is dead slow
> -- however, if I put the interface into promiscuous mode, in another
> screen, it starts working fast.
>
> I don't understand what could be wrong.   I've hit a bug?

Sounds like you have the broadcast address and/or netmask misconfigured.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list