Re: Help on a network driver ...

[David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The reason for that is that the TCP layer doesn't accept any packet that 
> the pkt_type is not a PACKET_HOST. This feature was added to TCP layer 
> in order to distnguish between packets that are for the host and packets 
> which are not, which is usually noticed when the port works in 
> promiscuous mode !

Turns out pkt_type may have figured in the problem (didn't look too much
at that code) because some intermediate layer set pkt_type to the wrong
value -- not the driver, a multicast bit in the MAC address was set wrong.
Nothing gave a diagnostic.

- Dave