From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 13: 1: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C243F37BEFC for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA03183; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:00:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:00:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Nick Evans Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode Message-ID: <20000703150034.A2787@dan.emsphone.com> References: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX>; from "Nick Evans" on Mon Jul 3 15:23:16 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message