Re: [expert] promiscuous network card ?!?!

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> 
>   Arpwatch may also do this, I'm not sure.
> 
Yep. It sure does! :-) I know, because I was running
arpwatch when I first installed Linux on my work machine
here people got in a real huff about it (I work for an
ISP) and there was some concern until we realized I was
running arpwatch. :-) After I disabled arpwatch, the lan
card stayed out of "promiscuous mode."
John

Re: [expert] promiscuous network card ?!?!

[Bug Hunter]

  are you running tcpdump or trafshow or any other of a dozen
network monitoring programs?  If so, your ethernet device is monitoring
all traffic on the network by being put in the promiscuous mode and
receiving all data packets and processing them.

  Arpwatch may also do this, I'm not sure.

  The solution is to not run those programs.

bug

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Zak McKracken wrote:

> > Aug 12 22:36:51 hgs kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
> 
> can anyone shed some light on this problem?? it appears that this is
> happening frequently, causing delays in the data flow from my ppp dialup
> link to my ISP, to the network machines.  Ideas anyone?
> 
> Zak
> 
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