Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:31:33 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <kstewart@urx.com>, "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Promiscuous Mode ?? Message-ID: <003701c0a2d1$abb711a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <005a01c0a29b$0ce46860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3A9EC78F.EF3E8D21@urx.com>
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> > > > > xl0: promiscuous mode enabled > > > > > xl0: promiscuous mode disabled "promiscuous mode" means that an application can see *all* packets on the ethernet, rather than just the packets addressed to the node. tcpdump and ethereal are two applications that use this to "sniff" out what's happening on the wire. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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