[tulip] starfire bring down and up interface problem

[agibson@ptm.com]

Thanks.  This test version fixed the ifdown/ifup issue.  I have flooded the interface with everything I could find to throw at it(packet wise) and it still works after ifdown/ifup.

Adam

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> 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
> Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
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> Annapolis MD 21403
> 
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