From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 4:54:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB4E37B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f6OBs7h59319; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:54:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: "Alexander S. Usov" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled In-Reply-To: <174317566.20010724132155@itv.kiev.ua> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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