How can I determine what caused my NIC to go into promiscuous mode on RHEL?

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Issue

  • Network cards are going into promiscuous mode for unknown reasons. How can we determine the process that is responsible?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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