Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:23:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: kegray@cisco.com (Kenneth E. Gray) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel hacks to operate promiscuously? Message-ID: <199706280023.SAA10992@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970627091956.025849c0@lint.cisco.com> from "Kenneth E. Gray" at Jun 27, 97 09:19:56 am
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Ken Gray (of Cisco, no less) asks:
> I have an application that requires responding to all ip packets on an
> interface as if I were the true host (no, it's not a B&E tool). Is there a
> known way to shift the BSD inetd into this mode (promiscuous)? I don't
> necessarily want my application to respond as the destination address (I'll
> use my own address, thanks).
Sure, the Berkeley Packet Filter device does this. You may want to
look at bpf itself, and at tcpdump, which uses bpf to packet-trace a
network interface.
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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