On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> For tcpdump, there's another possibility - some versions of tcpdump do
> not, by default, run in promiscuous mode; the "-p" flag, rather than
> turning promiscuous mode off, turns it on. Unfortunately, the tcpdump
> man page for that version of tcpdump doesn't always reflect that change.
> The versions I know of that invert the meaning of "-p" are for Linux,
> and *some* Linux distributions, such as, I think, Red Hat 6.1 and later,
> and SuSE 6.3 and later (and possibly some other distributions - Mandrake
> might follow Red Hat here - and other versions of the distributions
> mentioned, might do the same).
As this comes up now and then, let me summarize how this is wrt. Red Hat
Linux:
RHL60 and previous: promisc on, man page ok (tcpdump-3.4 without kuznet)
RHL61: promisc off, man page wrong (tcpdump-3.4 with kuznet)
RHL62: promisc off, man page ok
RHL7[01]: promisc off, man page ok
Next release: promisc on, man page ok (tcpdump-3.6.2 and some patches)
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