Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

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

>>>>> "KM" == Kazutoshi Morioka <aab36830@pop07.odn.ne.jp> writes:
    KM>  FYI, I experienced similar bug with Kondara, the japanese
    KM> distribution (http://www.kondara.org/) uses 2.2.x kernel.  In
    KM> that case, IPv6-patch changed libpcap's behavior about
    KM> promiscuous mode to incompatible with kernel.
    KM> 
    KM> A patch from Tatsuo Sekine <tsekine@isoternet.org> fixed this
    KM> bug. Kondara's newer kernel package includes this patch.
    KM> 
    KM> I checked Kondara with 2.4.0test which I compiled, and I can see
    KM> same bug. I guess 2.4.x kernels also require similar fix.
    KM> 

Just curious, is a patch to the kernel needed or is it a patch to
libpcap ?

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