Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:16:34 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Vladimir Litovka <doka@grunt.vl.net.ua> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to /sys/net/if.c Message-ID: <34D05702.2DF977A4@tdx.co.uk> References: <6apimm$bvp$1@grunt.vl.net.ua>
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It's a mode where the network card will receive & process all packets, not just packets destined for itself or the network broadcast address... It gets logged because of it's security implications (it's nice to have it log the fact someone switched the network interface into or out of promiscuous mode) It allows you to 'snoop' on a network, or provide useful debug info on what's going on... Regards, Karl Pielorz Vladimir Litovka wrote: > > In maillist.freebsd.hackers Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> wrote: > > > This will issue a log message when promiscuous mode is disabled. > > What is 'promiscuous mode' ? > -- > Vladimir Litovka <doka@grunt.vl.net.ua>, hostmaster of vl.net.ua > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > UNIX: And where do you want to find yourself tomorrow?
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