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> > But what happens if you write a program which does whatever ioctl is
> > required to unpromiscify an interface and run it on an unpromiscuous
> > interface, does it print a message to syslog even though promiscuous
> > mode was never enabled in the first place?
> 
> Like I said, I seem to get the intended behaviour.
> 
> vty1 -> start trafshow
> Aug 12 12:26:41 axl /kernel: xl0: promiscuous mode enabled
> vty2 -> start trafshow
> vty1 -> kill trafshow
> vty2 -> kill trafshow
> Aug 12 12:27:22 axl /kernel: xl0: promiscuous mode disabled
> 
> :-)

If everything works ok , howabout one of the developers
commits this modification to /sys/net/if.c ?

- Cillian


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