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From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Trying to get tcpdump to work
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Date: 8 May 91 07:01:41 GMT
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I set up my packet filter to run in promiscuous mode here yesterday, on
a 5000/200 with 4.1, and our whole VAXcluster (VMS) started crashing like
nobody's business...  I've heard that promiscuous mode will break LAT if
you've got LAT installed on the Ultrix host running it, which I haven't,
but I'm wondering if it still may have been my experimenting that killed
the VAXen.  We use LAT very extensively, in fact 3 out of every 4 packets
on our ethernet are LAT packets.  Anybody know anything about it?

-tih
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