David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:08:18 -0700
Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag
in dev_get_flags() ?
Because promiscuous status is a counter, not a binary
on-off state.
You can't expect to just clear it and expect all the
other promiscuous users to just "go away" and be ok
with the device leaving promiscuous mode.
Yes, I understand why you wouldn't let a user set promisc in this
manner.
Since you can't sanely "set" it, we don't provide it
either.
What harm is there letting the user know if their hardware is PROMISC
or not, regardless of how it got that way?
Also, it seems you *can* at least turn it on with ifconfig, and
you can decrement at least once with ifconfig as well. If nothing
else has promiscuity set, then this will indeed toggle the state, right?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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