Re: networking, 1.3.91

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:40:19 +0100 (BST)

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> 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

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