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From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] PROMISC  mode
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 11:43:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102595586404412@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102595527204135@msgid-missing>

On Saturday 06 July 2002 18:07, Vanitha wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> While implementing CBQ for my network card ,
> i found it has PROMISC  mode enabled by default while installing RedHat-7.3
> . What is it ? Is any way related to security.
No.  It means the network card is capturing all packets that pass the wire.  
If you run tcpdump or other sniffing software (ntop), the network card goes 
in promiscuous mode.

Stef

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-06 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-06 11:34 [LARTC] PROMISC mode Vanitha
2002-07-06 11:43 ` Stef Coene [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-19 14:30 [LARTC] promisc mode Ethy H. Brito
2002-11-19 14:34 ` Martin A. Brown
2002-11-19 14:46 ` Ethy H. Brito
2002-11-19 15:24 ` Martin A. Brown
2002-11-20 13:34 ` Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
2002-11-20 14:24 ` Ethy H. Brito

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