Re: NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX network probe proposal

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On Tuesday 2010-03-30 17:57, Roman Tsisyk wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 2010-03-30 16:06, Roman Tsisyk wrote:
>>
>> iptables does not drop these, your NIC does when it's not in promiscuous mode.
>>
>
>If I am no mistaken, for all packets whose mac doesn't match to the
>nic mac pkt_type is set to PACKET_OTHERHOST.
>Iptables drop packets with PACKET_OTHERHOST, I don't remember exactly
>where, may be in ip_rcv routine.

Indeed. You could make it a runtime option (e.g. sysfs-moduleparam)
during your tests.
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