On 20-Nov-99 Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean? > And where to find information about? > > Thanx > Alberto
Basically if the interface is set to promiscuous mode, the interface listens to all packets on the network instead of only those addressed to it. It is normally used for trouble shooting - some sniffer and tcpip monitoring utilities will put the interface into this mode. This mode can be set/reset with ifconfig. Try man ifconfig. ---------- Gary
