Promiscuous mode & Link change

Benjamin Herrenschmidt bh40 at calva.net
Wed Dec 6 22:39:55 EST 2000


>When using network card in promiscious mode and when link
>change (down or speed),  the promiscious mode is reset and
>card not stay in promiscious mode.
>
>Is it normal, or is it a feature not managed by Linux ?

This depends on the network chip driver. Which card have you
seen this with ?

Ben.


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