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.
This is not uncovered. I reported it several time to a lot of ppl
and nobody realy cared. Probably b/c as root you can hide this flag
anyway.
Again, the kernel strips it off if you try to read it via ioctl(). But
it is there. :)
thanks,
Sebastian
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