On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 12:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > From the web: > 1) In a network, promiscuous mode allows a network device to > intercept and read each network packet that arrives in its entirety. > This mode of operation is sometimes given to a network snoop server > that captures and saves all packets for analysis (for example, for > monitoring network usage).
Normally a NIC will only receive packets that are addressed to itself. By putting the NIC in promiscuous mode it will receive all packets that it sees, no matter how they are addressed. -- Richard Urwin
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