On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Dayalan Manohar spewed into the ether:
<snip unnecessary stuff>
> pardon me for intruding, but what exactly is meant by "promiscuous"
> mode?
Your ethernet card will normally process and send to the driver only
those packets which are destined for its MAC address.
In promiscious mode, the card will process all packets, irrespective of
source and/or destination.
Try using tcpdump with and without the promiscious flags set to see the
difference.
Devdas Bhagat
--
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-- Oscar Wilde
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