From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Martín Ferrari" <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IFF_PROMISC again
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:08:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465385F2.7080309@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178044568.7116.14.camel@abraxas.dyn-o-saur.com>
Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Hi, for the nth time I send this email, hoping that majordomo won't eat
> it again.
>
>
> I know this has been extensibly discussed circa 2001, but I found that
> there's still problems: in debian (at least) neither ifconfig nor ip
> can tell that the interface is in promiscuous mode.
>
> I know about the deprecation of IFF_PROMISC, but I couldn't find out
> which is the current way of knowing the real state of the interface. I
> want to fix ifconfig, so this is not an issue of
> PACKET_(ADD|REMOVE)_MEMBERSHIP, I need to query the real device state.
I have the same problem. I think you can tell by looking at bit 0x100
in /sys/class/net/[ethX]/flags
Not exactly fun to use, but it seems to work.
Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag
in dev_get_flags() ?
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 18:36 IFF_PROMISC again Martín Ferrari
2007-05-23 0:08 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-05-23 0:12 ` David Miller
2007-05-23 0:22 ` Ben Greear
2007-05-26 6:42 ` Martín Ferrari
2007-05-26 6:28 ` Martín Ferrari
[not found] ` <20070527094923.3b4705b6@freepuppy>
2007-05-28 1:05 ` Martín Ferrari
[not found] ` <20070527235819.3695a2a1@freepuppy>
2007-05-28 22:07 ` Martín Ferrari
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