Date: 15 Feb 2002 20:39:54 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Robert Tsay <cctsay@coollinux.adsldns.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FE promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <1013823595.44619.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151706310.25535-100000@coollinux.adsldns.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151706310.25535-100000@coollinux.adsldns.org>
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On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 20:36, Robert Tsay wrote: > Anyone know what happened about this? > > host/kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled > host/kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled Nothing to be alarmed about per se. This happens when you run a packet sniffer like ethereal or tcpdump. Promiscuous mode allows the machine to capture unicast packets which would otherwise not be destined to that host. Joe > > Thanks! > C. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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