From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 25 9: 5:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net [129.250.36.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBFB37B417 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.250.38.62] (helo=dfw-mmp2.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net with esmtp id 1682if-0002J9-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:05:29 +0000 Received: from dsl-64-194-5-249.telocity.com ([64.194.5.249] helo=ns.net) by dfw-mmp2.email.verio.net with asmtp (011805090) id 1682if-000271-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:05:29 +0000 Message-ID: <3C012670.8F0FFE0A@ns.net> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:12:16 -0800 From: Joseph Maxwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Promiscuous mode? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, Setting up a LAN behind a DSL Router on a 486 -DX2 Box: BSD 4.2 for network card dmesg ==> ed0: device timeout ed0: promiscuous mode enabled What is promiscuous mode ? How does one figure out if a card is actually been seen by the machine. Pinging to hostname is useless as the packets do not go past "loopback" and needless to say the machine is invisible to the LAN. lsdev does not help either. Thanks. -- Joe -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message