Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] promisc mode

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From: Bashar <V.Kupca@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:32:53 +0100
Hello,

I'm sorry in a case this has already been sloved in later
releases of Ethereal, but version 0.7.7 (and likely before)
has problems leaving promiscuous mode after entering it.
(In a case of pressing CRTL-C for exiting Ethereal, but sometimes
also by "Quit"ting from menu). This has MAJOR impact on performance
in Linux - ethernet card is busy by looking inside all packets 
on the wire. It took me quite a time to find out. This is very
nasty behaving bug - with difficult localization of the cause being 
Ethereal. Solution by hand is, of course, 
e.g. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc

Regards,
					--Vojta