sio(4) driver

[Maxim Mazurok]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:04:26PM +0200, Thomas Moestl wrote:

>> >> >> >That's very strange. So you cannot see them in tcpdump if you do not
>> >> >> >put the interface in promiscuous mode (by using the -p argument to
>> >> >> >tcpdump)? Can you receive broadcast packets (e.g. a broadcast ping) at
>> >> >> >all?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> so... experiment:
>> >> >> [...]
>> >> >
>> >> >Hmmm. Can you please repeat the experiment and send a tcpdump, this
>> >> >time in promiscuous mode (i.e. without the -p option), if possible
>> >> >from both the e250 and the cisco?
>> >> 
>> >> i not have e250 :(
>> >
>> >Oh, sorry, mixed that up.
>> >
>> >> i have Ultra AXi OEM motherboard.....
>> >> tcpdump on cisco - it's problem. i can run packet debugger....
>> >
>> >Hmmm, the tcpdump from the sparc64 box might do for now.
>> >
>> >> so, experiment two: 
>> >> 
>> >> root at fang:~#ifconfig rl3
>> >> rl3: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> >>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>> >>         inet 193.201.116.249 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 193.201.116.251
>> >>         ether 00:30:4f:21:bc:91
>> >>         media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP
>> >>         status: active
>> >> root at fang:~#tcpdump -n -i rl3
>> >
>> >Please include -e in the tcpdump flags; sorry for forgetting to
>> >mention that.
>> 
>> root at fang:~#tcpdump -e -n -i rl3
>> tcpdump: listening on rl3
>> 01:47:28.400964 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 114: 193.201.116.250 > 255.255.255.255: icmp: echo request
>> 01:47:29.796714 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 1:0:c:cc:cc:cc 0125 307: CDP v2, ttl=180s DevID 'ap-ec' Addr (1): IPv4 193.201.116.250 PortID 'Ethernet0' CAP 0x01[|cdp]
>> 01:47:30.398474 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 114: 193.201.116.250 > 255.255.255.255: icmp: echo request
>> 01:47:32.398607 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 114: 193.201.116.250 > 255.255.255.255: icmp: echo request
>> 01:47:34.398588 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 114: 193.201.116.250 > 255.255.255.255: icmp: echo request
>> 01:47:36.401175 0:0:c:47:8a:c1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 114: 193.201.116.250 > 255.255.255.255: icmp: echo request
>
>OK, so arp is working fine; the real problem is that the station address
>is not programmed correctly even with the patch that I sent you. The
>issue is that it has do be programmed with 32-bit accesses - byte-wise
>accesses, like my patch introduces, are seemingly not allowed. They
>used to "work" before because we did not make the configuration
>registers writable, so the byte writes would not change anything and
>the address preloaded from the card ROM would be used.
>
>I've attached a patch that uses stream accesses to program the address
>instead. I've borrowed myself a rl card, and it seems to work fine
>now (in fact I'm writing this over it).

my sources now from

*default release=cvs tag=. date=2003.08.22.00.00.00

patch to my if_rl.c is rejected :(
patch to my if_rlreg.h is applied.
i need cvsup to latest date?

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Maxim Mazurok  (MMP2-RIPE)