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Old 02-25-2008
one71 one71 is offline
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I have partially understood the strange connections popping up.

tcpdump sets the network interface in promiscuous mode. This means that:

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In computing, promiscuous mode is a configuration of a network card that makes the card pass all traffic it receives to the central processing unit rather than just packets addressed to it
Still I do not understand the "strange connection Nr3", any idea?
Thanks
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