Re: eth0: entered promiscuous mode

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:28:04 -0700


On Jan 10, 2002 21:59 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
> Can somebody please tell me what the above message means?

It means that you are running a program like "tcpdump". If not, it
may mean that someone has hacked into your system and is running a
network sniffer to capture passwords on your network.

Cheers, Andreas

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