[Click] From Device in promiscuous mode

[Beyers Cronje]

Hi Nicola,

I would say yes, in non-promiscuous mode all non-locally addressed packets
will be droppped at the NIC without interrupting the CPU, while in
promiscuous mode all packets will be forwarded to the kernel.

Beyers

On 1/10/07, Nicola Arnoldi <nicola.arnoldi at dit.unitn.it> wrote:
>
> Hi guys, do you think it is possible that FromDevice working in
> promiscuous mode has different impact on performances than FromDevice
> working in non-promiscuous?
>
> Bye
>
> Nicola
>
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