Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:45:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> Cc: Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970414124425.5873A-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970414165019.1430A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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> > I just got in to work this morning and saw this on my terminal: > > > > > Apr 13 15:06:43 temp1 /kernal: ed0: promiscuous mode enabled > > > > What does it mean? > > > > Just that. :) > > It means this interface is now recieving all packets, and the kernel > decides what to do with them :) > > Usually its caused by people running 'tcpdump' .. however it COULD be > packet-sniffer programs. Do you have the bpfilter compiled into your > kernel? I get the same thing with trafshow, which uses bpfilter.
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