From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 6: 3:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9790E37B553 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 06:03:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:03:25 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03048; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:03:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:03:24 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Nick Rogness Cc: Dan Nelson , Nick Evans , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > 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? > > Stupid Man's Answer: > > I would just run on bootup: > > /usr/sbin/tcpdump >> /dev/null & > > Probaby not the answer you are looking for, but maybe it will > help. You'll notice a lot of DNS traffic from your machine if you do this. Include -n at least! -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message