pcap-bpf silently ignores failures to put the interface in promiscuous
mode.  I was trying to dump on an interface that doesn't support promiscuous
mode (a FreeBSD 802.1Q VLAN sub-interface), but I wasn't aware of that
fact, and was confused by the fact that I wasn't seeing everything.

I understand not wanting it to be a fatal error, but I'd like to know
about it.  What do people think about making ebuf always valid, whether
pcap_open_live() returns NULL or not, and if ebuf is full but
pcap_open_live() also succeeded then it's a warning?

Thanks,
  Bill
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