Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces
Am 16.3.2001, 20:32 (-0500) schrieb S.Salman Ahmed:
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> Isn't ifconfig supposed to report if a network interface is in
> Promiscuous mode ? I thought it was.
Hi,
I have the same behaviour on my machine. ifconfig doesn't show the
PROMISC-mode of eth0. Whem I'm using 'iproute' instead of ifconfig, the
PROMISC-mode is reported correctly:
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Yogiland:/home/yogi# dpkg -l|grep iproute
ii iproute 20001007-1 Professional tools to control the
networking
Yogiland:/home/yogi# dpkg -l|grep net-tools
ii net-tools 1.58-2 The NET-3 networking toolkit
Yogiland:/home/yogi# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:EC:BF:4F
inet addr:192.168.12.1 Bcast:192.168.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:90486 (88.3 Kb) TX bytes:91298 (89.1 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe000
Yogiland:/home/yogi# ip link show eth0
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen
100
link/ether 52:54:00:ec:bf:4f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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Running Debian 2.1, Kernel 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, not compromised (cause its
running offline... ;-)
Marcus
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