It means that that interface is receiving all packets on the network segment. Useful for packet sniffers. It's a bad thing if a cracker has initiated it. Pollywog wrote: > > Is it a bad thing for my machine's interfaces to be in promiscuous mode? > > -- > Andrew > > ----------------------------- > GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 > *we all live downstream* > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null