Promiscuous mode

energy · Oct 23, 2006, 12:24 AM

Since I installed 1.0-Release I get lot of these messages, rl0 is my wan nic but what does it mean?

kernel: rl0: promiscuous mode disabled
kernel: rl0: promiscuous mode enabled

kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1532 > max 1514)

hoba · Oct 23, 2006, 12:48 AM

Packages like snort or darkstat need promiscuous mode to be able to sniff on an interface. Do you have any of these packages installed?

energy · Oct 23, 2006, 11:38 AM

I did but removed them do u know howto fix this? cause it allso dissconnect my nic everytime.

kernel: rl0: link state changed to UP
kernel: rl0: link state changed to DOWN
kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1532 > max 1514)

energy · Oct 23, 2006, 10:10 PM

I reinstalled pfsense and it works fine now.