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Re: System not accepting Route Advertisement packages



On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:28:43PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> >   My old laptop has a xircomm pcmcia network card which i need to put into
> >   promiscuous mode for it to receive the router advertisements. Guess it's
> >   worth a try on your box.
> It indeed was; that fixed it. Thanks!

So your hardware (driver) does not properly support multicast.

> Now for a way to do this /without/ using tcpdump all the time...

ifconfig $IFACE promisc

Bastian

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