[tulip-bug] Linksys PCMPC200 requires PROMISC mode to recieve? [.92]

[Neale Banks]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Scott A Crosby wrote:

> Hello. I have a `Linksys EtherFast Cardbus 10/100' PCMCIA card. (Model
> number: PCMPC200) that was bought a week ago. Although the most recent
> version of the driver [.92] works without problems, for some reason, I
> need to keep the card in promiscious mode
[...]
> The symptoms seem as if the ethernet card isn't sending packet's to the
> kernel unless PROMISC mode is set. When PROMISC is set, all this
> automagically goes away.
[snip]

This sounds similar to a problem I had with NetGear cards which was
diagnosed by Keith Owens.  It only manifiested itself on shared media
(i.e. hub not switch) and turned out to be that the arp-reply was never
making it into the NIC's Rx ring (instead there was a copy of the
transmitted packet).

1) Are you on a hub?

2) Can you avoid this by first pinging *to* 10.2.3.5 (before 10.2.3.5 has
attempted to arp)?

3) Does this silliness goes away if you put a static ARP entry on
10.2.3.5?

Regards,
Neale.