On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Bill Fenner wrote:
> >This is an issue with tcpdump/libpcap after all I suppose, caused by the
> >fact that new packet socket mode is used for 2.2+ kernel.
>
> I hope you mean "tcpdump/libpcap seems to have uncovered a bug in the
> 2.2+ kernel". It can't be libpcap's job to set/reset IFF_PROMISC.
I'm not sure which component should report what, but the old libpcap code
does, grep for IFF_PROMISC in pcap-linux.c to see :-)
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