From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 17:39:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D2037B405 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1G1da813877; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:39:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: FE promiscuous mode? From: Joe Clarke To: Robert Tsay Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 15 Feb 2002 20:39:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1013823595.44619.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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