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Date:      15 Feb 2002 20:39:54 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Robert Tsay <cctsay@coollinux.adsldns.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FE promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <1013823595.44619.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151706310.25535-100000@coollinux.adsldns.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151706310.25535-100000@coollinux.adsldns.org>

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On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 20:36, Robert Tsay wrote:
> Anyone know what happened about this?
> 
> host/kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
> host/kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled

Nothing to be alarmed about per se.  This happens when you run a packet
sniffer like ethereal or tcpdump.  Promiscuous mode allows the machine
to capture unicast packets which would otherwise not be destined to that
host.

Joe

> 
> Thanks!
> C.
> 
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