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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: William Flanagan <bill@flanagan-consulting.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to set promiscuous mode
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:14:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211091418.GL26388@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4c04e76-1e38-c742-5637-030cd74bc279@flanagan-consulting.com>

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 03:22:33PM -0500, William Flanagan wrote:
> Working with iproute2 for a task with Wireshark.  I don't see the 
> command in 'ip' to put an Ethernet port into promiscuous mode.  A reply 
> from the openSuse forum (below) tells me how.
> 
> I'm wondering if this should be in the 'MAN ip' page.

Please have a look at ip-link(8), its synopsis section at least lists
'promisc' option for 'ip link set' command. I'll follow-up with a patch
adding a little description, though.

Cheers, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-09 20:22 How to set promiscuous mode William Flanagan
2019-02-11  9:14 ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2019-02-11  9:17   ` [iproute PATCH] man: ip-link: Describe promisc mode Phil Sutter
2019-02-11 19:36     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-12 15:42       ` Phil Sutter

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