Andrew Gallatin writes:
> Dale Ghent wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Isn't that usually done via ifconfig's "-arp" argument?
> BSD and Linux have the same ifconfig [-]arp parameter,

Indeed; many have asked about exactly that sort of feature.

> but their arp
> command doesn't allow you to shoot your head off..

I'd expect that setting "-arp" has the same decapitating result.

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