From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 14:39:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B7237B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e86Lcv223603; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:38:57 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: petro Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promiscuous mode Message-ID: <20000906143857.Q18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from petro@She.wertep.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:33:20AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * petro [000906 14:34] wrote: > rl0: promiscuous mode enabled > rl0: promiscuous mode disabled > What does it mean and how I can set this ???? > Thank you very much. When we say realtek cards are 'cheap', we didn't mean price-wise. Er, sorry, seriously, it means that the card isn't filtering packets based on MAC address and is slurping all data that comes at it over the ethernet. It usually means someone is running a dhcp client or some packet sniffing software. Please use -questions for questions, the -hackers list is for actuall discussion of FreeBSD programming and bugs. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message