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  From: Alex Wilkinson <valex@style.senet.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 19:04:47 +0930 (CST)

Re: Promiscuous Mode

mmmmm....Promiscious mode is a mode that can be set on a NIC.
It basically  used to accept *all* (as oppossed to those addressed
to *your* MAC address) packets on a given network.
It is used in the implemantation of many sniffers.

That's about all I know at the present moment about promiscious mode.
I have no idea why it is swapping in and out though.

- Alex 



On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, David Lloyd wrote:

> 
> I'm getting stuff like this in my /var/log/messages and I'm not sure
> what it means:
> 
> Jun  9 17:07:28 localhost kernel: device ppp0 entered promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 17:09:21 localhost kernel: device ppp0 left promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:31:01 localhost kernel: device ppp0 entered promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:32:04 localhost kernel: device ppp0 left promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:34:37 localhost kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:35:14 localhost kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:35:26 localhost kernel: device ppp0 entered promiscuous mode 
> Jun  9 18:35:58 localhost kernel: device ppp0 left promiscuous mode 
> 
> Any ideas? I've read a little bit of the Ethernet-HOWTO which talks
> about the "Berkely Packet Filter". The only reason I can invent for this
> appearing is that I've started to experiment with Ethereal which is a
> program that lets you watch packets go by various network interfaces...
> 
> DAVID
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