VMWare ESXi 5.1 promiscuous mode.

Hi,

I have installed VMWare ESX5.1 and I created serveral virtual machines v.7 over it.

All the virtual machines are in the same vSwitch and Port Group which are configured to reject promiscuous mode.

The problem is if I dump the traffic from the vMachines I cat see ALL the traffic originated and destinated to other VMs.

I used tcpdump in order to dump the traffic like this:

tcpdump -i eth1 not host <my_laptop_ip>

And I see stuff like this:

16:03:45.386981 IP 192.168.19.108.http > 2.194.11.124.51972: P 40724:41157(433) ack 1189 win 175

192.168.19.108 is the IP address of another machine in the same ESX.

Is that normal?

Thank you in advance