promiscuous mode

Oliver Leitner shadow333 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 18:52:22 UTC 2005


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Teo Fonrouge wrote:

| Hello,
|
| Using a FC4 box.
|
| Checking in my /var/log/messages file I noticed that the kernel has
|  setting my eth0 interface in promiscuous mode regularly:
|
| Aug 21 14:30:38 sx1 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Aug 21
| 14:30:38 sx1 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Aug 21
| 14:30:38 sx1 kernel: bridge-eth0: enabled promiscuous mode Aug 21
| 14:31:36 sx1 kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode Aug 21
| 14:31:36 sx1 kernel: bridge-eth0: disabled promiscuous mode Aug 21
| 14:31:36 sx1 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Aug 21
| 14:31:36 sx1 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Aug 21
| 14:31:36 sx1 kernel: bridge-eth0: enabled promiscuous mode
|
| I believe that I haven't ran any program that causes this.
|
| It is a normal kernel operation ?
|
| How can I know what is causing this ?
|
|
| best regards
|
| Teo Fonrogue
|
does any of these programs ring a bell?:

iptraf
tcpdump
ethereal

or any other monitoring program?

greetings
oliver
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