On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, rakesh bahl wrote:
> How do you make your ethernet card on linux accept all the packets
> which are flowing on the segment?
This is called promiscuous mode, AFAIK. You can run an ethernet on
promiscuous mode, but it has to be configured this way. Tcpdump does this
and will report all packets flowing through the interface, if so desired.
> I think I would have to write a driver which would communicate with
> the card and some sort of a skeleton TCP/IP stack so that the packet
> reaches the Application Layer.
Isn't this what libpcap does?
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christian
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