Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:00:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode Message-ID: <20000703150034.A2787@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX>; from "Nick Evans" on Mon Jul 3 15:23:16 GMT 2000 References: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C92C@SN1EXCHMBX>
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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? The only code that fiddles with the promisc bit is bridging and bpf, so the only way to do it now is to start up packet filtering. Why do you need to turn it on? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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