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Re: Packet sniffing & regular users



Hello Brian,

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:14:51PM -0500, Brian Kim wrote:
<snip>
| Getting back to the problem at hand, is it required to be a superuser
| in order to listen to all traffic coming in on a NIC? (I've always
| believed yes, but I'm just making sure here....) And is it possible to
| drop a NIC into promisc mode (as root) and leave it there?
<snip>

I have not used it before but there is a `promisc' option to
ifconfig(8).

%ifconfig eth0 promisc

Best regards,

--
Zane Dodson
zdodson at zdodson.com



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