Device ed1 (D-Link DFE-670TXD) has an invisible "interface"?

[Al-Afu]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 17:27, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2003 01:29 am, Al-Afu wrote:
> > I have a D-Link DFE-670TXD (device ed1) card which is giving me the
> > following output on "ifconfig -a":
> > As you can see, there is no Media or carrier information. Is this a reason
> > why i cant ping to this machine from any other host? I cant ping out from
> > this machine to others. But not the other way round. Pls .. if anyone has
> > any ideas.
> 
> I have used this card and can vouch that you're not -supposed- to have media 
> or carrier information.  Evidently the driver doesn't support it.
> Also, it works here.
> 
> I note you're running IP Filter.  This is likely the culprit; check your 
> ruleset.
> 

The symptoms was there even before i installed IPFilter. I installed the
packet filter (with default "pass all" policy) simply for the reason
that to ensure no packets are rejected or ignored at the network layer

> -Cliff L. Biffle
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