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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:06:20 -0700
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Passive network interface?
Message-ID:  <20010802110620.A62059@sigbus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010802122417.A8089@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:24:17PM -0500
References:  <20010802083001.B61442@sigbus.com> <20010802122417.A8089@dan.emsphone.com>

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I still see arp broadcast problems though (i.e. IP is on interface #1 but got
reply on interface 2)

> 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

      Charles Henrich                                     henrich@sigbus.com

                         http://www.sigbus.com/~henrich

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