[LARTC] no PROMISC mode in ip link show

[Radek Vokál]

Hi 

When I start arpwatch or tcpdump the Ethernet card eth0 goes into
promiscuous mode but I cannot see it with ifconfig eth0 or ip link show.
The only way I can see it is when I looked at dmesg.

Ifconfig uses the old style IOFLAG way to determine this but looking
into ip code this is supposed to work even with newer kernels (I'm on
2.6.17 now with the latest iproute package) 

I found these links about the issue
http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2001/01/msg00184.html
http://lists.virus.org/bugtraq-0207/msg00363.html



Radek


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