From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 10 9: 3:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19EC37B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by mohegan.mohawk.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBAH3kV96031 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:03:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:03:46 -0500 (EST) From: Ralph Huntington To: Subject: promiscuous mode In-Reply-To: <20011211013724G.sakane@kame.net> Message-ID: <20011210120011.H59192-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently found these log entries: messages.2:Dec 6 13:45:35 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled messages.2:Dec 6 13:46:31 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled messages.2:Dec 6 13:47:53 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled messages.2:Dec 6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled messages.2:Dec 6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled messages.2:Dec 6 13:55:42 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled Can someone tell me how this mode might be enabled/disabled? We have very few shell users on this machine and I didn't think any of them would know anything about promiscuous mode. Turns out I know little about it myself. Any pointers to relevant docs and/or some idea of what this might be about would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance. - Ralph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message