Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:21:38 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Promiscuous Mode ?? Message-ID: <002901c0a2f1$cdb23440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010301202223.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Baldwin >On 01-Mar-01 Doug Young wrote: >> Would someone please comment on the following. The machine is >> running fine so I don't believe its anything particularly bad, but I >> don't recall seeing that particular message previously. > >Do you use DHCP? Every time you get or renew a lease dhclient puts the >interface in promiscuous mode. No, it doesen't - DHCP is just another service, it requests via broadcast packets and listens for a unicast packet response on a specified port. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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