promiscous mode

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

Hi,
can anybody say how to see if my lan card
supports promiscous mode, and how to set
the card to that state?

thx alot...

[Steven E. Protter]

The world could be flooded with lan cards if you let them do that. These lan cards need adult spervision.

Can you elaborate on what goal you are trying to accomplish?

I know you can set up sendmail in this mode, if you like to get a lot of spam.

SEP

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
if you want to use promisuos mode for network spoofing, i suggest you to download etherreal,
from

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/


or smilar network sniffer.


Regarding your direct question, if you can post the card you have.....

Massimo

[benoit Bruckert]

hi,
if you want to sniff your network with tcpdump, then tcpdump should turn the NIC in this mode itself (to install this tool, don't forget the libpcap library).
By hand, I don't really know, see dlpi driver or libpcap sources ?
hth
Benoit

[Ron Kinner]

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90139/B2355-90139.html

Explains how to use DLPI which is used to talk directly to a card and set it to promiscuous mode.

Note that if using 10.20 - 11.0 you will also need to have a certain patch and also run an adb command. See:

http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libpcap/README.hpux?rev=1.2

Ron