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Sorry if I'm missing something, but what would promiscuous mode do in this age, exactly? I personally haven't seen a hub in at least a decade, and on a switched
by boring_twenties 7y ago
Sorry if I'm missing something, but what would promiscuous mode do in this age, exactly? I personally haven't seen a hub in at least a decade, and on a switched network, is there any difference?
- icedchai 7y agoYes, there's tons of non-unicast traffic: ARP requests, spanning tree, various UDP broadcast packets, etc...
- teraflop 7y agoThe NIC would receive broadcast traffic regardless of whether promiscuous mode is enabled, wouldn't it?
- boring_twenties 7y agoBroadcast packets are received in non-promiscuous mode, obviously. Otherwise none of this would work without it.
- icedchai 7y agoYes, you are correct.. I was more commenting that the "stray" network packets could still be used for timing.