Re: Promiscuous mode
Micha wrote:
> I'm sorry this is not strictly firewall related, but maybe you can enlighten
> me anyway. I just found this kernel log message:
>
> Aug 18 02:54:11 woody kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> Aug 18 02:54:11 woody kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> Aug 18 02:54:14 woody kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>
> and i don't know what it means. I didn't do anything special, AFAIKR,
> at this time. No suspend either, no shutdown or booting, just writing
> emails...iptables didn't log anything either.
>
Maybe you ran a packet sniffer like tcpdump, ethereal or the like? This
would cause your NIC to listen for all packets, and not just those
related to it's own traffic (i.e. promiscuous mode).
-Nathan
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