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From: werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: questions about promiscuous wd8003
Keywords: pcip, netwatch, wd8003, NS8390
Message-ID: <538@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 15:20:48 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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I'm running CMU/MIT pcip on a 3com 3c501 and on a wd8003. Netwatch works fine
with the 3com but I have troubles with the wd8003 card.

Whenever I run netwatch it starts up just like on the 3com but after displaying
a (random) number of packets, it starts getting hickups: it now and then stops 
for a second or two and then displays another bunch of packets. When I run both
both machines simultaneous I can see that the wd8003 loses a lot of packets.

Does anybody know about this problem and could give me some help ?

Im am also interrested in some explaining about the modes you can put 
the 8390 RX control register in.

I understand you can use 6 modes:

	0x01	save error pkts
	0x02	accept runt pkts
	0x04	accept broadcasts
	0x08	accept multicast
	0x10	promicuous mode
	0x20	monitor mode

The modes I cannot figure out are the save error pkts an the monitor mode
could someone  explain them to me.

werner (werner@nikhefk).