That is probably because smoothwall has snort installed on it. You're probably seeing this message as a result of snort stopping or starting. I'd ditch smoothwall for Mandrake's SNF or BBI Agent (http://www.bbiagent.com) Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Bauer [mailto:rotbau at squishnet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:04 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] smoothwall question > > > Ok folks, political/richard morrell rants aside, I have a > couple of questions about smooth wall. > > 1. when I issued a halt command while logged onto the box > with smoothwall installed I saw a message that said "eth0 > entering promiscuous mode" as the box was shutting down. > Is this just a way of saying that it is resetting the > ipchains policies back to the default accept or something > more sinister? In my experience promiscuous mode is not a > good thing for you card to be at unless you are running a > sniffer. > > 2. is this product any good. I haven't seen any hacks for > it yet but I don't know if it is any good. > > Cheers, > > rotbau > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >