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From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 11:43:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] PROMISC  mode
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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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