[2680] in linux-net channel archive
Re: networking, 1.3.91
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Apr 27 03:45:56 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: rberry@albany.net (Russell Berry)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:40:19 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@cymru.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960425073008.15798A-100000@magik.albany.net> from "Russell Berry" at Apr 25, 96 07:33:07 am
> All that you suggest checks out, I did notice another
> additional oddity. when I do an ifconfig sometimes
> it shows eth0 in promisc mode! So I ifconfig eth0 -promisc,
> it goes back to the way it was and everything runs smoothly
> for a couple more hours. When the network starts dragging
> again later, I'll do ifconfig, and the promisc will be back
> again!! Is my card dying?
Promisc is software switched. So either you are running a tool like tcpdump
or you want to do some very serious checking who is.....
Alan
