On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:12:02AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
...
> We could also return an error if you attempt to open the "any" device in
> promiscuous mode, so that if somebody does
>
> tcpdump -i any
>
> they'll get an error, and will have to do
>
> tcpdump -p -i any
>
> so that they don't request promiscuous mode.
The best is that the current behaviour is documented in manual. I'm OK for
"tcpdump -i any" generating an error and asking to add -p while the reason
is clearly documented, then linux kernel guru should help improving
situation while lusers (as I'm) are stopped asking same questions.
Once again, thanks a lot for the libc5 support.
Denis Ducamp.
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