> It is only really  
 likely in >          
 promiscuous mode >   
                      
 I believe a DDoS     
 (distributed denial  
 of service attack    
 can cause wire-speed 
 traffic to come in   
 from all over the    
 net and cause a high 
 interrupt rate even  
 in non-promiscous    
 mode.                
                      
 thanks               
 -kamal