From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 20:30:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A260237B71A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f224SOi23447; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:28:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003701c0a2d1$abb711a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , "Doug Young" Cc: References: <005a01c0a29b$0ce46860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3A9EC78F.EF3E8D21@urx.com> Subject: Re: Promiscuous Mode ?? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:31:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > 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