Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:25:10 +1000 From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Promiscuous Mode ?? Message-ID: <3AA00FB6.23775.11CFE8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <003701c0a2d1$abb711a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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thanks for the response Matthew Nobody should have been running tcpdump ..... there are only three people with root access to that system (one is out of town and it sure wasn't either of the othr pair) On 1 Mar 2001, at 23:31, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > > > xl0: promiscuous mode enabled > > > > > > xl0: promiscuous mode disabled > > "promiscuous mode" means that an application can see *all* packets on the > ethernet, rather than just the packets addressed to the node. > > tcpdump and ethereal are two applications that use this to "sniff" out > what's happening on the wire. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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