Subject: Re: RiscPC ethernet yet again
To: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/14/1999 12:39:43
On Tue 14 Dec, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > A very similar tweak can be used on the ea driver as well. To recap,
> > since the 18th May the drivers for the EtherB and EtherIII have not
> > allowed any inwards packets to proceed up through the stack. The fix
> > substantially allows this work. However, problems still exist when using
> > ipf.
> > 
> For the ea card could you try running tcpdump on the interface to see if 
> that sees any packets.

Yes, all the packets are seen. With the fix from the eb driver applied
to the ea driver, then the ea driver behaves in exactly the same way
as the eb (not surprising seeing as they are virtually identical).
Do you have an EtherB/EtherIII for testing?

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