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.

