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SubjectRe: eth0: entered promiscuous mode
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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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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