Re: Promiscuous mode

[Christian Schuerer <debian.lists@quincunx.at>]

On Friday 18 August 2006 03:38, 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.

I think this is caused when you use DHCP to configure your network - or use 
e.g. guessnet or alike to guess on which network you are (at least guessnet 
does this on my system in order to do arp-probes).

Greetings,

   Christian