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Date:      Thu, 01 Mar 2001 20:22:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Promiscuous Mode ??
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010301202223.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <005a01c0a29b$0ce46860$847e03cb@apana.org.au>

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On 01-Mar-01 Doug Young wrote:
> Would someone please comment on the following.  The machine is 
> running fine so I don't believe its anything particularly bad, but I
> don't recall seeing that particular message previously.

Do you use DHCP?  Every time you get or renew a lease dhclient puts the
interface in promiscuous mode.
 
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