[NTLUG:Discuss] promiscuous mode...

[MadHat]

So I am sitting  here at my desk trying to get to a site, and it is dog
slow...  I look and don't see anything odd, so I try to hit it from
another box on my desk and it is fast, so I do some more research... 
turns out that my NIC is set in promiscuous mode and receiving all
packets broadcasted on my network...  It is averaging 450+kbits/sec... 
This is rather anoying.  

I have tryed

from 'man ifconfig'
" [-]promisc
              Enable  or  disable  the  promiscuous  mode  of the
              interface.  If selected, all packets on the network
              will be received by the interface."

# ifconfig eth0 -promisc
which should disable promiscuous mode, but didn't seem to change
anything.  While watching the packets come throgh, I can see that 99% of
them are not for me, so I am still in promiscuous mode....  any ideas on
how to disable promiscuous mode temporarily (I do have to use it from
time to time for my job).

I am running:
# uname -a
Linux madhat.broadcast.com 2.2.12 #9 Fri Oct 29 22:31:53 CDT 1999 i686
unknown

# ifconfig -V
net-tools 1.51
ifconfig 1.39 (1999-03-18) 

pcmcia-cs-3.0.12
 3Com 3CCFE575 Cyclone CardBus

TIA for any ideas.  

BTW, I don't want to have to disable it in the kernel, but will if
necessary.  I know this is an option.

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