Kernel error FBSD 4.2

Kernel error FBSD 4.2

Post by Peter Erickso » Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:17:51



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.

 
 
 

Kernel error FBSD 4.2

Post by Mike Andre » Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:41:53



: 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.

--
Basically, no matter what you compare spammers to,
that object will be insulted.
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Kernel error FBSD 4.2

Post by RaRa Rasput » Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:08:43



>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.

It means someone is using your machine for packet sniffing.
Whether you should do anything about it depends where this machine is.

--
Rasputin
Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns
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to install it, I get the following error:

if ( gcc --version | egrep "^2\.7\.([01]|2(\.[^1-9]|$))" >/dev/null );
then echo -Dconst= >./obj/cc.tr; else echo -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings
cannot create ./obj/cc.tr: directory nonexistant
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/local/src/gs7.00.

After getting this error, I checked the obj directory and the cc.tr
file does exist. My whole source directory is owned by root and 777
permissions. I then tried to just remove everything and try make
again. Doing so, I recieved this error and am no longer able to remake
in unless I remove the entire source directory and untar it again and
then start from scratch.

if ( gcc --version | egrep "^2\.7\.([01]|2(\.[^1-9]|$))" >/dev/null );
then echo -Dconst= >./obj/cc.tr; else echo -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings
gcc `cat ./obj/cc.tr` -I./src -o ./obj/genconf ./src/genconf.c
gcc: ./src/genconf.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files specified
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/gs7.00.

Basically after extracting the source, it seems that I can run some
form of make once before I get this error message, or some form of it,
on every other make. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I
guess you could consider this kind of an educational exercise for me
so I would like to not use the port. Thanks in advance.

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