In article <20020213.001736.03366378.davem@redhat.com> you wrote: > Do we just cancel out all the counts if we are asked to clear the > IFF_PROMISC bit? That is definitely wrong, it blows away the entire > intention of having a count in the first place. Or do we make it act > as a "decrement 1 count"? That sounds equally lousy to me. Well, the method (a new ioctl or something else like sysctl) is not important, but an admin needs a method to turn the hardware promisc flag offf without killing the running aplications. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
