Dale Ghent writes: > On May 29, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Sebastien Roy wrote: > > The latter; ARP isn't useful nor harmful on its own if IP can't move > > packets. > > I've *heard* of cases where people desire to have a stealth network > sniffer, which I suppose would entail silencing arp on the promiscuous > interfaces involved. Surely not a huge or overriding use case.
You can already do that by just not plumbing IP. The DLPI drivers can receive traffic silently. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
