Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:28:04 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: eth0: entered promiscuous mode |
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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 -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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