Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:51:48 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970414165019.1430A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199704140941.LAA14770@www.warp.co.uk>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Anthony Barlow wrote: > Hi > > I just got in to work this morning and saw this on my terminal: > > Apr 13 15:06:43 temp1 /kernal: ed0: promiscuous mode enabled > > What does it mean? > Just that. :) It means this interface is now recieving all packets, and the kernel decides what to do with them :) Usually its caused by people running 'tcpdump' .. however it COULD be packet-sniffer programs. Do you have the bpfilter compiled into your kernel? -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)
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