From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 5: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A793C37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from own3d@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 2594 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2001 12:00:02 -0000 Received: from dclient62-2-164-87.hispeed.ch (HELO loc) (62.2.164.87) by mail.gmx.net (mail09) with SMTP; 24 Jul 2001 12:00:02 -0000 From: "locus" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd" Subject: RE: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:05:02 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <174317566.20010724132155@itv.kiev.ua> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, promiscuous mode means that you can see all packets on the ethernet, not just the ones addressed to this nic. tcpdump and such programs need promiscuous mode. bye -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alexander S. Usov Sent: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2001 12:22 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled Hi. Does anybody know what does that mean? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:lex@itv.kiev.ua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message