When I boot my system in the boot sequence (after starting etho interface)
I get a message;
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
And then these continue to trickle out..
Never saw this before on this machine, something wrong??
Thanks.
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On 20/11/99 Alberto Maurizi wrote:
What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean?
And where to find information about?
it means your NIC will not only perform at less then 1/10th the speed
it used to. turn it off.
and what everyone else has already said its for snooping o
On 20-Nov-99 Alberto Maurizi wrote:
>
> What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean?
> And where to find information about?
>
> Thanx
> Alberto
Basically if the interface is set to promiscuous mode, the interface listens
to all packets on the network instead of only
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean? And where to find
> information about?
During normal operation, all ethernet traffic on the local ethernet
segment is seen by everyone on the segment. By default ethernet card
discards a
i dont know how to explain it fully it its a mode where the network card
tries to listen to everything it can.. network analysis tools turn this on
when they are running, turning this on may not have much effect if your on
switched ethernet(if any)
some network admins get mad if they see a machine
What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean?
And where to find information about?
Thanx
Alberto
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