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
Stephen, I think your mail didn't make it to netdev. Majordomo seems
to be working badly with special charsets (my mails used to be totally
ignored because of charset and/or encoding issues).
On 5/27/07, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, I searched for this a lot! It could be
Hi David,
On 5/22/07, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag
> in dev_get_flags() ?
Because promiscuous status is a counter, not a binary
on-off state.
You can't expect to just clear it and expect all the
other promiscuous users to
Hi Ben,
On 5/22/07, Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PACKET_(ADD|REMOVE)_MEMBERSHIP, I need to query the real device state.
I have the same problem. I think you can tell by looking at bit 0x100
in /sys/class/net/[ethX]/flags
Not exactly fun to use, but it seems to work.
Wow, I sea
David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:08:18 -0700
Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag
in dev_get_flags() ?
Because promiscuous status is a counter, not a binary
on-off state.
You can't expect to just clear it and expect all
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:08:18 -0700
> Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag
> in dev_get_flags() ?
Because promiscuous status is a counter, not a binary
on-off state.
You can't expect to just clear it and expect all the
other promiscuou
Martín Ferrari wrote:
Hi, for the nth time I send this email, hoping that majordomo won't eat
it again.
I know this has been extensibly discussed circa 2001, but I found that
there's still problems: in debian (at least) neither ifconfig nor ip
can tell that the interface is in promiscuous mode.
