Thanks, tcpdump does it alright, but I'd like to have promiscuous mode on 
without running tcpdump in the background if possible. (I'll take this as a 
learning moment otherwise.) I'm trying to use the first vr[0-3] interfaces like 
an L2 switch in this case.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Ted Unangst <[email protected]>
>Sent: May 19, 2009 3:18 PM
>To: Fortunato <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: promiscuous mode
>
>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Fortunato
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've looked over the ifconfig man page and can't find a way to set a 
>> specific interface to PROMISC mode on 4.4, for example:
>
>ifconfig can't be used to set an interface to promiscuous.  You can
>use something like tcpdump.

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