[tulip] starfire bring down and up interface problem

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 agibson@ptm.com wrote:

> I apologize ahead of time, as I realize this is the tulip list, but
> starfire does not have a list and tulip is the closest list to it. 
> 
> With the pci-scan and starfire(starfire.c:v0.15 4/07/2000) module loaded,
> and then bring up eth1(first interface of starfire), everything works
> fine.  If I then ifdown and then ifup the eth1 interface, the starfire
> driver does not seem to be able to send outgoing packets but thinks it
> does according to tcpdump on that same system. 

This was a bug with the station address and Rx filter configuration.
The card was actually in promiscuous mode with the old version!

It's fixed in the test version:
    ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/starfire.c

Please send a report -- I want to move this to "released" status ASAP!


Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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