Re: [LIP] ethernet card to promiscuous mode

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:46:41PM +0000, Avinash Dinesh wrote:
> can anyone tell me in detail,how to set my lan card to
> promiscuous mode[to sniff all packets on the wire].

The ioctl is SIOCSIFFLAGS. You set the IFF_PROMISC flag (I think -
read the source).

Binand

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