RE: eth0: promiscuous

To: Alberto Maurizi <alberto@sif.it>
Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: RE: eth0: promiscuous
From: gsublett@lava.net
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:02:31 -1000 (HST)
Message-id: <[🔎] XFMail.991120120231.gsublett@lava.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.991120201924.1473A-100000@cocoon.sif.it>

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 those addressed to it.  It
is normally used for trouble shooting - some sniffer and tcpip monitoring
utilities will put the interface into this mode. This mode can be set/reset
with ifconfig. Try man ifconfig.
----------
Gary

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- eth0: promiscuous
  - From: Alberto Maurizi <alberto@sif.it>

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