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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: I call it the "NT sniper bug".
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 19:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506060254.MAA05475@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 6, 95 12:24:15 pm
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> 1) The ethernet card shouldn't be in promiscuous mode.  It requires a
>    conscious effort to set it in the first place, so it's not 'accidentally'
>    happening.

Not so fast.

It can merely be a crappy chipset and a lousy implementation of multicast...

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Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?