From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Balazs Javor <jb3@freemail.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: eth0: entered promiscuous mode
Date: 10 Jan 2002 22:44:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010720687.813.5.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020110205946.GB24838@zhadum.bjavor.d2g.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020110205946.GB24838@zhadum.bjavor.d2g.com>
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:59, Balazs Javor wrote:
> Can somebody please tell me what the above message means?
>
> I very often encounter this in the syslog and sometimes
> also on the console.
Promiscuous mode means the network card will snag packets even if they
are not delivered to you. Typically, only ethernet frames whose MAC
address matches you or broadcast are processed by the NIC. Thus, your
NIC can read any and all packets on your network.
Are you sniffing your coworkers or something ? ;)
Robert Love
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-10 20:59 eth0: entered promiscuous mode Balazs Javor
2002-01-10 21:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-10 21:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-01-10 22:21 ` David C P Gray
2002-01-11 3:44 ` Robert Love [this message]
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