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From: Robin Woolard <RWoolard@NewWorldApps.com>
To: 'Joe Clarke' <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: RE: how to configure nic with promiscuous mode
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:51:12 -0400
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Basically, I want to run a sniffer on the nic but if the sniffer doesn't put
the card in promisc... that is why I was looking for the feature.

Thanks,
R. Woolard

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Clarke [mailto:marcus@marcuscom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:36 PM
To: Robin Woolard
Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: how to configure nic with promiscuous mode


I'm not really sure why you'd want to do this.  However, here is a QAD
hack I did for 4.3's ifconfig that will give you this functionality.  Use
promisc to turn it on, and -promisc to turn it off.

Joe Clarke

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Robin Woolard wrote:

> I am trying to set my nic to promiscuous mode at start up but can't seem
to
> figure out how to do this.  On Sun Solaris and Linux, I can manually set
the
> card to promiscuous mode by running "ifconfig [interface] promisc".  This
> doesn't seem to work on FreeBSD.
>
> When I want to start a nic in promiscuous mode at boot time, I can put a
> similar line in the rc files on Sun/Linux but since the "promisc" argument
> doesn't work with ifconfig on FreeBSD, I'm at a loss as to what to do here
> also.  Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thank you,
> R. Woolard
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