The relevant dictionary meaning for Promiscuouos is
Lacking standards of selection; indiscriminate.
(source dictionary.com )
regards,
vikas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abhijit Menon-Sen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: [ilugd] Re: Promiscuous Mode of Ethernet
> 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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