From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: simon Subject: Re: promiscus mode Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:50:19 +0100 Message-ID: <41F8F19B.9010806@laposte.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: muruganandam@softhome.net Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org hello Muruganandam wrote: > Hi all, > > How to enable the Promiscus mode in the kernel,inorder to capture the > packets.Advance Thanks > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > to put a interface into the promiscious mode... just be root and tape... ifconfig eth0 promisc and to unset the promiscious flag : ifconfig eth0 -promisc be carreful to remove this flag after usage... as it give extra job to the linux network stack... simon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs