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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:00:34 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode
Message-ID:  <20000703150034.A2787@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX>; from "Nick Evans" on Mon Jul  3 15:23:16 GMT 2000
References:  <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX>

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In the last episode (Jul 03), Nick Evans said:
> How do I set an interface in promiscous mode permanently? In Linux
> it's simply ifconfig <interface> PROMISC. Is there something similar
> in BSD? Is it somekind of sysctl command?

The only code that fiddles with the promisc bit is bridging and bpf, so
the only way to do it now is to start up packet filtering.  Why do you
need to turn it on?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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