From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 6:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from P7.mpionline.com (dsl-mw-209-115-240-i249-edm.nucleus.com [209.115.240.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D70537B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 06:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from P5 (P5.mpionline.com [209.115.240.246]) by P7.mpionline.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9MDxJQ98352 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:59:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from tomek@mpionline.com) Message-ID: <001a01c15b01$a2cb1e40$f6f073d1@mpionline.com> From: "Tomek" To: Subject: promiscious mode needed? (tcpdump) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:58:32 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 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 Hello there, I was wondering if promiscious mode (enabled by default in tcpdump) is actually needed or in ANY way helpful when jsut trying to monitor traffic to/from the local machine? Also, I have noticed I am picking up a tiny bit of traffic that is supposed to go to other DSL customers in my neighbourhood, is that normal with promiscious mode? Thanks, Tomek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message