Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:06:34 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Thiago Esteves de Oliveira" <thiago.e.o@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060409100537.02962288@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <c46abf9d0604090735se4ca24dna3a16dc5a0f38208@mail.gmail.com > References: <c46abf9d0604090735se4ca24dna3a16dc5a0f38208@mail.gmail.com>
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promiscuous mode means the ethernet NIC grabs ALL packets, not just the
ones addressed to it. This is typically done by packet sniffers.
-Derek
At 09:35 AM 4/9/2006, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)...
>
> When a run 'dmesg', look:
>
> fxp: promiscuous mode enabled
> fxp: promiscuous mode disabled
> fxp: promiscuous mode enabled
> fxp: promiscuous mode disabled
>
> I didn't find it in fxp's manual...
>
>
>What's it ...
>
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