Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:32:19 +0530 (IST) From: saju.pillai@oracle.com To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <devdas@worldgatein.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intel pro/100 vm not going to promiscuous mode ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0207081230350.28252-100000@incq120sb.idc.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20020707133045.GB21479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Thanks. I was on a switched n/w. One of the n/w guys confirmed that ( and gave me a very strange look when i said 'tcpdump' :-) On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:30:45 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > To: saju.pillai@oracle.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: intel pro/100 vm not going to promiscuous mode ? > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 05:55:10PM +0530, saju.pillai@oracle.com wrote: > > > I am running 'tcpdump -i fxp0' , but I am only seeing packets > > which are meant for me. (tcpdump is v3.4) > > Sounds like you're working on a fully switched network --- very nice, > if you can afford it. Switched networks work by knowing what machines > are accessible through which network ports --- they keep a table of > the ethernet MAC addresses seen on passing packets --- and they make > the most efficient possible use of bandwidth by only sending traffic > down the wires to the machines it's intended for. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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