On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> This may be intentional; if anybody doesn't like that behavior, they
> should take it up with the Linux networking folk - I don't think libpcap
> should use the deprecated SOCK_PACKET mechanism merely so that
> "ifconfig" will report PROMISC on interfaces on which promiscuous
> captures are being done, especially given that there are *other*
> versions of libpcap that use PF_PACKET sockets as well (e.g., the
> versions with Alexey Kuznetzov's patches - the Red Hat 6.1 and later,
> and SuSE 6.whatever and later, distributions have those patches
> applied).
I've taken this up in linux-kernel and linux-net mailing lists. We'll see
if anyone of authority looks into it.
I agree that libpcap shouldn't use the old SOCK_PACKET interface just for
this. It's only a 'breaks the expectatations' issue with ifconfig after
all.
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