It means something set your Ethernet interface "rl0" to promiscuous mode,
which allows it to receive all Ethernet frames on the wire it's attached to
instead of just its own.
Common applications that do this are tcpdump, trafshow and ntop. If you've
used one of these they will by default try and
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:33:20AM +0300, petro wrote:
> rl0: promiscuous mode enabled
> rl0: promiscuous mode disabled
> What does it mean and how I can set this
This means the interface rl0 now listens to all traffic on the wire. Happens
for example when you run dhcpd
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Wilko Bulte
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