ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

[S.Salman Ahmed <ssahmed@pathcom.com>]

Isn't ifconfig supposed to report if a network interface is in
Promiscuous mode ? I thought it was.

I am currently running a sid system with kernel-2.4.2 and the only way
I have to check if a network has changed its promiscuous status is to
grep through /var/log/kern.log. ifconfig says nothing about it.

Can anyone else confirm that this is a bug in ifconfig in sid ?

@phoenix:[/root] dpkg -S `which ifconfig` 
net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig
@phoenix:[/root] dpkg -l|grep net-tools
ii  net-tools      1.58-2         The NET-3 networking toolkit
@phoenix:[/root] uname -a
Linux phoenix 2.4.2 #3 Sat Feb 24 13:14:50 EST 2001 i686 unknown


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