Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:03:24 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0007061402360.2348-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007031453250.50816-100000@rapidnet.com>
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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 <interface> 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
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