Stephen, On 5/28/07, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great that you point it out. Then, we're back to the initial > situation, there is no reliable way of polling promisc state, and I am > looking for a way to do that. Ways I think it could be done: Back to the original question. Why should an application care?
Not an application, but the sysadmin do cares about it. And most rootkit detectors don't have any other way of checking if a tcpdump-like tool is running. I don't see the usefulness of keeping the current toggle via gflags, which is confusing for users. But I see a benefit in exporting promiscuity as a read-only value, and I think it's pretty trivial to provide it. -- Martín Ferrari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
