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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


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