Ricardo Branco wrote: >This affects Linux 2.2 and 2.4 > >Using libpcap to put the interface in promiscuous mode, will cause that >ifconfig(8) doesn't show it! > > This is an old issue (noticed this nearly 2 years ago...) but can be contributed to 'bad' userspace tools. >libpcap uses setsockopt(..., SOL_PACKET, PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, ...) with >PACKET_MR_PROMISC to set the interface in promiscuous mode. > > The interesting thing is that the PF_PACKET sockets are also not reported by netstat. Anyway this should be fixed. /ih
