Re: Promiscuous mode

2000-09-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:33:20AM +0300, petro wrote: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled rl0: promiscuous mode disabled What does it mean and how I can set this This means the interface rl0 now listens to all traffic on the wire. Happens for example when you run dhcpd W/ -- Wilko Bulte

RE: Promiscuous mode

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Young
It means something set your Ethernet interface "rl0" to promiscuous mode, which allows it to receive all Ethernet frames on the wire it's attached to instead of just its own. Common applications that do this are tcpdump, trafshow and ntop. If you've used one of these they will by default try