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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


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