From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 17:11:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.kdsi.net (camel.kdsi.net [206.103.113.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FF937B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:11:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@camel.kdsi.net) Received: from camel.kdsi.net (leepcC-075.sub-c.lee.net [208.205.126.75]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by camel.kdsi.net (8.12.0.Beta10/8.12.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id f5M0DoKv076293; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:13:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B328CD6.EAED368F@camel.kdsi.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:09:58 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Woolard Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: how to configure nic with promiscuous mode References: <48F26311AF9C9943926CA0CD204BC2140C3FE9@nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you compile support in your kernel for the 'bpf' (Berkley Packet Filter) pseudo-device? If not, sniffers won't sniff. (I'm not sure if this is turned on by default for the generic kernel.) 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message