Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:54:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: "Alexander S. Usov" <lex@itv.kiev.ua> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240451520.5567-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <174317566.20010724132155@itv.kiev.ua>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Alexander S. Usov wrote: > Hi. > > Does anybody know what does that mean? it means the network interface (rl0) is listening to all packets on the wire. usually, this happens when you activate a program like 'tcpdump', or some other packet sniffer. usually, the NIC only listens to broadcasts addressed to itself, in promiscuous mode, it will listen to ALL broadcasts it recieves, no matter who it's for. hope this helps, -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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