Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: ext2 errors | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 1997 21:26:12 +0100 (BST) |
| |
> Is it possible an ethernet card accidentally left in promiscuous mode (I > think Red Hat's tcpdump is buggy) could cause bad interactions with the No tcpdump tends to do this. The RH4 one shouldnt tho.
> NCR SCSI card? I noticed today that eth0 was in promiscuous mode...I > often use tcpdump to sniff on this system, but haven't today.
For the ethercard to fall out with the NCR would really require a hardware bug like corruption on back to back DMA from different targets - possible but improbable and almost impossible to find out
| |