more NetGear mising ARPs

Keith Owens kaos@ocs.com.au
Fri Jun 11 10:28:54 1999


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:28:46 +1000 (EST), 
Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au> wrote:
>As others have suggested, it's as though the arp reply is either not seen
>by the card or not delivered up by the driver.

Does switching the card in and out of promiscuous mode have any effect?
"ifconfig eth0 promisc", try the Cisco, "ifconfig eth0 -promisc", try
Cisco again.

If that works, it could be the problem I saw with Xircom RBEM56G.  The
TX/RX rings get confused when CSR6 is changed too quickly and the MAC
filters are not setup correctly.  If promisc on/off works, try tulip.c
from ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/xircom-RBEM56G-howto-2.tar.gz.  This
patched tulip 0.91 is mainly intended for RBEM56G but the CSR6 fix
should work on other tulip cards, set strict_csr6=1.