On Saturday 06 July 2002 18:07, Vanitha wrote:> Hello All, > > While implementing CBQ for my network card , > i found it has PROMISC mode enabled by default while installing RedHat-7.3 > . What is it ? Is any way related to security.No. It means the network card is capturing all packets that pass the wire. If you run tcpdump or other sniffing software (ntop), the network card goes in promiscuous mode. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net