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Re: promiscuous mode?
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Eric Weakland <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:09:55 -0400
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Brian,

This usually means that someone has run tcpdump/wirshark/iptraf or 
something else that asked your network card to listen for all packets, not 
just ones destined for itself.  You need root priviledges (usually) to do 
this on *nix -so if you don't know why . . . you should find out.

Eric



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promiscuous mode?






Can anyone tell me what this means?
 
?device eth1 entered promiscuous mode?
 
I found it in the /var/log/messages log file. Right after we received it, 
traffic stopped and the dhcp server shut down.
 
Thanks in advace.
 
Brian Beausoleil
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Southern CT State University
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