On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jason Copenhaver wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Patrick Grantham wrote:
>
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > Jun 8 20:59:03 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:15:04 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:18:16 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:21:28 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:24:40 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:30:03 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:33:15 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:36:27 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > Jun 8 21:39:39 server1 kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
>
>
> It means someone is running a network sniffer on the box. If it isn't you
> I would be a little worried
VMware also puts the interface in promiscuous mode (in some networkong
configurations).
As a side note, I have a text-to-speech system (festival) which I feed
'interesting' lines from /var/log/messages. My mother was highly upset
when she heard it announce 'promiscuous mode enabled on eth0'. I had to
explain that I did not name it.
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