At 2004-01-09 02:02:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What exactly is promiscuous mode?

It's a mode in which an Ethernet card receives all frames on the network
(instead of only those that are addressed to it). In this case, tcpdump
is setting the promiscuous mode on your interface, which will return to
normal when you exit tcpdump.

> I would appreciate it deep from my heart if someone explains it
> deeply...

Did you ask Google about promiscuous mode?

-- ams

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