Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:07:30 +0100 From: "Sander van Dinten" <sander@joek.dnsq.org> To: "'Ralph Huntington'" <rjh@mohawk.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: promiscuous mode Message-ID: <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc> In-Reply-To: <20011210120011.H59192-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
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Are you using some kind of an network sniffer? Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your IP-address). -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Ralph Huntington Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:04 PM To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: promiscuous mode 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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