At 2004-01-10 03:42:24 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am sorry but I couldn't get *(instead of only those that are
> addressed to it)*. Yeh baat kuch hazam nahi hui...
Did you ask Google about promiscuous mode?
> Please elaborate :-(
Every Ethernet card has a hardware (MAC) address. Every Ethernet frame
("packet") has a source and destination address, and is broadcast over
the network. In normal operation, an Ethernet card receives only those
frames that are addressed to itself (i.e., its own MAC address matches
the destination of the frame).
In promiscuous mode, however, the card receives all the frames it sees
on the network, regardless of their destination address. (Which means
that you can, on a shared network segment, see traffic between hosts
other than your own.)
-- ams
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