From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 14 02:03:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA27439 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 02:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA27429 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 02:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01438; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:51:48 +0800 (WST) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:51:48 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Anthony Barlow cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 promiscuous mode? In-Reply-To: <199704140941.LAA14770@www.warp.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Anthony Barlow wrote: > Hi > > I just got in to work this morning and saw this on my terminal: > > Apr 13 15:06:43 temp1 /kernal: ed0: promiscuous mode enabled > > What does it mean? > Just that. :) It means this interface is now recieving all packets, and the kernel decides what to do with them :) Usually its caused by people running 'tcpdump' .. however it COULD be packet-sniffer programs. Do you have the bpfilter compiled into your kernel? -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)