The device eth0 has entered in promiscous mode

[E.Gopi Kannan]

Hi All,

Am getting "The device eth0 has entered in promiscous mode" in the dmesg alwayz. Please help me, how to fix this issue.

device eth0 left promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
-bash-3.2$/sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:4B:FF:1C:34
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:4bff:feff:1c34/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2484217829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9720479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:331712400826 (308.9 GiB) TX bytes:1122863987 (1.0 GiB)
Interrupt:169

-bash-3.2$

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

at first you should know what does it mean :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode

if you use for example arpwatch the NIC will go to the promiscous mode, because you need to sniff all arp request, this is for example.


mikap

[Wilfred Chau_1]

it simply means eth0 will accept all packets on the network.

you can turn it off by issuing
ifconfig eth0 -promisc

[E.Gopi Kannan]

Hi All,

Thanks....

[E.Gopi Kannan]

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