Grazie, For some reason when I put all the vr interfaces in the bridge at first, there was no forwarding. (I did not verify nor know about the PROMISC settings at the time.) After much tinkering, it works and brconfig does set the interfaces on PROMISC.
Thanks to all, -----Original Message----- >From: Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> >Sent: May 19, 2009 4:21 PM >To: Fortunato <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: promiscuous mode > >On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Fortunato ><[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, tcpdump does it alright, but I'd like to have promiscuous mode on >> without running tcpdump in the background if possible. > >The interfaces are put into promiscuous mode automatically when >there's something that needs them to be. Otherwise, it's a waste of >CPU time to receive packets that the network stack is simply going to >otherwise discard. > >> I'm trying to use the first vr[0-3] interfaces like an L2 switch in this >> case. > >It sounds like you want to setup a bridge(4). Check the bridgename.if >and brconfig man pages.
