From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin A. Brown" Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:05:01 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] newer iproute2: no support for "ip link set dev $DEV promisc on" Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Greetings all, I have tried to find a discussion of the removal of support for the PROMISC interface flag with the iproute2 tools. - it used to work (iproute2-2.2.4-$ANCIENT) - there's a comment about it in the iproute docs [0] - (un-)setting the flag with ifconfig still works Can anybody point me to the discussion (linux-net, maybe?) where support for setting the PROMISC flag was pulled from the "ip" utility. I'd like t understand a bit better why this is so. Thanks for any answers, -Martin [0] http://www.detached.net/ip-routing/ip-cref/node10.html -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/