From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 3:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE8237B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 03:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11001; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:29:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au Received: from matey.apana.org.au(203.3.126.134), claiming to be "kurley" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdi10999; Fri Mar 2 21:29:48 2001 To: "Matthew Emmerton" Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:25:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Promiscuous Mode ?? Cc: Message-ID: <3AA00FB6.23775.11CFE8@localhost> In-reply-to: <003701c0a2d1$abb711a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks for the response Matthew Nobody should have been running tcpdump ..... there are only three people with root access to that system (one is out of town and it sure wasn't either of the othr pair) On 1 Mar 2001, at 23:31, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > > > 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