Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

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

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Beranek <beranek@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
    Marcus>  Hi, I have the same behaviour on my machine. ifconfig
    Marcus> doesn't show the PROMISC-mode of eth0. Whem I'm using
    Marcus> 'iproute' instead of ifconfig, the PROMISC-mode is reported
    Marcus> correctly:
[snip]
    Marcus> 
    Marcus> Running Debian 2.1, Kernel 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, not compromised
    Marcus> (cause its running offline... ;-)
    Marcus> 

Marcus,

I just installed iproute and "ip link show eth0" does indeed correctly
show the PROMISC status of the card. ifconfig still doesn't.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I'll see if I can contact the
upstream author/maintainer.

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Salman Ahmed
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