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Subject: Re: Ethernet and Promiscuous Mode
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Ricardo Núñez wrote:

> Which of the listed Ethernet cards supported by FreeBSD are able to switch
> to Promiscuous Mode (and be useful to TCPDump)

Most of them support this functionality.  I know for a fact that the
ed and de drivers both support it, while the EtherExpress 16 driver, ix,
does not (at least since 2.1.5 or earlier).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major