From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:28:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:28:34 -0500 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:51185 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:28:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:28:04 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: eth0: entered promiscuous mode Message-ID: <20020110142804.D26688@lynx.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020110205946.GB24838@zhadum.bjavor.d2g.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020110205946.GB24838@zhadum.bjavor.d2g.com>; from jb3@freemail.hu on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:59:46PM +0100 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/