On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:19:03AM +0200, Ian David Laws wrote:
Then this is normal behaviour of the 8139too driver.
but why does it do that, does it mean that it is in promiscuous mode or not?
No, the driver starts a kernel thread that does the negotiation of link capabilities. This is the process you're seeing. On my box, it looks like this: # ps lp 361 F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 002 0 361 1 15 0 0 0 schedu SW ? 0:00 [eth0] Look at the VSZ and RSS fields - they're zero, indication that this process doesn't have any virtual memory or executable associated. OTOH the state is not Z(ombie). This usually means it's a kernel thread. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | Anyone who has had to work with X.509 has probably okir@suse.de | experienced what can best be described as ---------------+ ISO water torture. -- Peter Gutmann