On Friday 18 August 2006 03:38, Micha wrote: > I'm sorry this is not strictly firewall related, but maybe you can > enlighten me anyway. I just found this kernel log message: > > Aug 18 02:54:11 woody kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. > Aug 18 02:54:11 woody kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode > Aug 18 02:54:14 woody kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode > > and i don't know what it means. I didn't do anything special, AFAIKR, > at this time. No suspend either, no shutdown or booting, just writing > emails...iptables didn't log anything either.
I think this is caused when you use DHCP to configure your network - or use e.g. guessnet or alike to guess on which network you are (at least guessnet does this on my system in order to do arp-probes). Greetings, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
