From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 10:24:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2419B37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f72HOH404457; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:24:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:24:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Charles Henrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive network interface? Message-ID: <20010802122417.A8089@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010802083001.B61442@sigbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010802083001.B61442@sigbus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 02), Charles Henrich said: > Is there any provision in FreeBSD for turning an interface into a > monitor-only port, where none of the packets are processed by the IP > stack, and instead just used only by things like tcpdump? Don't ifconfig an IP onto it and you should be okay. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message