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From: TOM@PENNDRLS.BITNET ("Thomas D. Denier")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: Restricting IBM token-ring snooping
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Date: 22 Oct 90 14:36:11 GMT
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I asked about promiscuous mode at an IBM communications seminar. As
far as IBM's token-ring interfaces are concerned, the speaker gave a
less detailed version of Sam Drake's response. However, there are
other companies making token-ring interfaces. As far as the speaker
was aware, the makers of such interfaces were not subject to any
formal requirement to build them without a promiscuous receive
capability, and he suspected that some of the interfaces on the
market had such a capability.