[OLUG] Promiscuous eth0

[Mark Lichtenberg]

Hi. I was digging around in my syslogs today trying to diagnose a
network problem, and found that my ethernet card was entering
promiscuous mode, and then leaving it immediately. 


Apr 15 12:20:54 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:20:54 dizzy kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 15 12:22:50 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:22:50 dizzy kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 15 12:22:57 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:22:57 dizzy kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 15 12:23:55 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:23:55 dizzy kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 15 12:24:17 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:24:17 dizzy kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 15 12:24:53 dizzy kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
Apr 15 12:24:53 dizzy kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode

Why would it be flipping on and off like this? Is this just a nuance of
ethernet? Thanks.

Mark Lichtenberg

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