: I am running FreeBSD 4.2 and got an error that I have never seen before.
: Feb 12 14:26:27 imp /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
: Feb 12 14:26:35 imp /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
: Feb 12 14:26:35 imp /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
: Feb 12 14:27:10 imp /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
: Feb 12 14:27:45 imp /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
: Can anyone explain what this exactly means and if I sould be doing anything
: about this?? Thanks in advance.
This is not a report of errors. It just tells you that the NIC
has been set to "promiscuous mode", where it captures all packets
that it sees, without regard to the MAC address they're sent to,
and then that it has been taken out of "promiscuous mode".
Generally this shows that you've started and stopped tcpdump or
some other system tool that wants to see all the packets on your
Ethernet segment.
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