Re: SQUID 2.2-STABLE3 Error Message

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:22:56PM -0400, James Porter wrote:
...
> >> > pid 7541 (squid), uid 65534: exited on signal 6
> >> > xl0: promiscuous mode enabled
> >> > pid 8711 (cpp), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
> >
> >Looks like your Squid is crashing from time to time, and that someone is
> >running tcpdump or another network sniffer.
>
> Hmm. OK. I do run full firewalling here. But I only opened a couple of
> ports to the SQUID machine like DNS, Port 80, and a few others. Other than
> that she's locked down tight.

It's not that someone is probing your system. It's that "xl0:
promiscuous mode enabled" above, which looks like someone (possibly
you) is opening the Ethernet card in sniffer mode, e.g. to do tcpdump.
At least that's what it usually means.

  -- Clifton

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