fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Sun Apr 9 15:06:57 UTC 2006


promiscuous mode means the ethernet NIC grabs ALL packets, not just the 
ones addressed to it.  This is typically done by packet sniffers.

         -Derek


At 09:35 AM 4/9/2006, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)...
>
>  When a run 'dmesg',  look:
>
>  fxp: promiscuous mode enabled
>  fxp: promiscuous mode disabled
>  fxp: promiscuous mode enabled
>  fxp: promiscuous mode disabled
>
>  I didn't find it in fxp's manual...
>
>
>What's it ...
>
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