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Swapping out the NIC did it. I'm reluctant to whine at the maintainers because I know so little about FreeBSD. But I think I'll drop them a note... Thanks much.

All the real machine. I'll try a different NIC -- there are 2 in the box; both act the same way. It's reproducible, but I really don't feel like I know what I'm doing, so I'm almost trying things at random. And as for bizarre... It looks very much like the problem may be that with promisc...

Yes, it certainly does sound like a misconfig, but I can't figure out what it is -- I don't know any of the tricks and gotchas of BSD network configuration, yet. I did run tcpdump; that was my first clue. I'd started a ping, and nothing was happening. I went to another VTY, logged in, and ran...

This morning I put 7.1 on a Via box with RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S Ethernet card (from sysinstall). I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been playing with this box to learn a little about the BSD side. The network seems not to work unless the interface (re0) is in promiscuous mode. I don't...