Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:16:33 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: cillian@baker.ie (Cillian Sharkey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change to /sys/net/if.c & /sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c Message-ID: <199908202016.OAA08805@lal.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <37BD61B7.F4C2CD28@baker.ie> from "Cillian Sharkey" at Aug 20, 99 03:09:59 pm
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For the record, I'd love to see this made official, and under normal (not
just verbose) logging.
-Dave
Lo and behold, Cillian Sharkey once said:
>
> Hi,
>
> change to /sys/net/if.c which will print out
> "xxN: promiscuous mode disabled" msg to match its
> equiv. "xxN: promiscuous mode enabled" msg
> works on all my interfaces even if tcpdump is run
> multiple times etc. However it does not print out
> the disabled msg for tun0 interface for some mysterious
> reason..
>
> (another interesting thing was if tun0 == kld and I
> try a tcpdump, tpcdump doesn't recognise tun0 at all !)
>
> patch against 3.2-STABLE (synced few minutes ago)
>
> *** if.c Fri Aug 20 14:42:44 1999
> --- if.c.bak Fri Aug 20 14:50:42 1999
> ***************
> *** 790,797 ****
> if (--ifp->if_pcount > 0)
> return (0);
> ifp->if_flags &= ~IFF_PROMISC;
> + log(LOG_INFO, "%s%d: promiscuous mode disabled\n",
> + ifp->if_name, ifp->if_unit);
> }
> ifr.ifr_flags = ifp->if_flags;
> error = (*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, SIOCSIFFLAGS, (caddr_t)&ifr);
> --- 790,795 ----
>
>
> Beware, next suggestion is pure vapourware :P
>
> I hacked the /sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c file to
> display kernel messages in a different colour
> (bright green if you want to know), I think
> it would be cool if we could change this
> either via OPTIONS KERNMSGCOLOR=FOO in kernel
> conf file or via sysctl perhaps..
>
> ..as I warned you, ultimate in vapour ware :P
>
> - Cillian
>
>
> as a sidenote:
> Anyone else out there wonder why Linux console
> is so crap? ie: can only scroll up on *current*
> console, boot messages from kernel are messy
> and full of ad banners, kernel messages
> are in boring plain-text colour..
>
> Enough hot air from me for today.. :)
>
>
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