In addition, I think Mattias from freshrpms.net builds packages for 
Fedora, not Enterprise Linux, so you can not use yum/apt/smart for 
installing freshrpms into Scientific Linux, but you can download source 
rpms and try to rebuild them for SL.

HTH

Cheers
Alex
Alex Kruchkoff wrote, On 07/10/2008 09:17 AM:
> Hi Arturo,
>
> you could read the wikipedia article:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode
>
> Basically, when you start tcpdump or another tool for sniffing network 
> traffic you turn the network interface [eth0] into promiscuous mode.
>
> Cheers
> Alex
> Arturo Fatturi wrote, On 07/10/2008 08:15 AM:
>> Hello to all.
>>
>> I am finding some trouble with the following message at boot:
>> eth0 promiscuous mode enable. eth0 promiscuous mode enable
>> eth0 promiscuous mode enble
>>
>>
>> I do not know wath this means: I can acces the
>> web but do not install any extra software.
>> Yum are reporting error : canot acces freshrpms.
>>
>>  Wath is a "promiscuous mode enable". My
>> computer is victim of hackers?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> Arturo Fatturi
>>
>> Brazil
>>
>>   
>