Vinu Moses wrote:
>
> On Sunday 16 September 2001 12:45 pm, Dayalan Manohar wrote:
> > pardon me for intruding, but what exactly is meant by "promiscuous"
> > mode?
>
> It basically means that your ethernet card or network interface picks up all
> packets that it sees, not just the packets thats' meant for it alone.
>
> Programs like tcpdump and ethereal can be used to put the network interface
> in promiscuous mode.
>
hi vinu,
thanks for the info.i was asking because we are developing set top boxes
which have a cable modem interface which runs always in promiscuous
mode.i dont know why.
regards,
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