Re: Promiscuous mode

From: Borek Lupomesky (Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 07:26:00 EST


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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Svend Eriksen wrote:

> Hie
>
> When I enable promiscuos mode on the Ethernet NIC, the NIC accepts all
> the frames on the LAN. But where are the frames stopped, in the the
> link-layer?

   They are discareded by kernel unless you ask form them in a special way
(open SOCK_PACKET socket).

   Bye Borek

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