From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 0:21:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9947B37B719; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f228LcN08436; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "John Baldwin" , "Doug Young" Cc: Subject: RE: Promiscuous Mode ?? Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:21:38 -0800 Message-ID: <002901c0a2f1$cdb23440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >[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