em0 hijacking traffic to port 623

[Ed Maste]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:21:53AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:

> >> > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Hi
> >> > > >
> >> > > > We've noticed an issue on our firewalls where the first em device
> >> > > > in the system hijacks inbound port 623 tcp and udp.  The OS never
> >> > > > sees this traffic.
[patch omitted]

> Hardcoding this change into shared code is not the right place
> to do it, however I'll take a look at that and figure out a more
> appropriate approach.
> 
> Jack

Jack, do you have any update on adding a sysctl etc. to configure the
management port hijacking?  I was just bitten by the same problem and
am going to just hardcode ~(E1000_MANC_RMCP_EN | E1000_MANC_0298_EN)
for now but would like to switch to the fix that will actually end up
in the driver.

- Ed