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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Paul Khavkine <paul@distributel.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Reading raw ethernet
Message-ID:  <20050819150328.G25493-100000@krusty.mtl.distributel.net>

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Hi guys.


I'm writing a small program to read raw ethernet frames out of netgraph
to capture Spannign Tree packets from the switch.

Is it possible to pick up STP frames without putting the interface in
promiscuous mode ?

Thanx
Paul

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