tcpdump help

[mbrodeur at NextTime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ron Peterson wrote:

> I'm getting the hang of it now.  I also found "promiscuous" mode - which is
> how I was expecting tcpdump to operate by default.  That was what was
> confusing me.

   Be careful with this.  tcpdump has changed behavior at least two times
in as many years.  Originally it would set the interface to promiscuous,
and '-p' told it not to.  Then it was changed, somewhere around v3.4, so
that it didn't force promiscuous UNLESS you used '-p'.  Now, at version 
3.6 (RedHat 7.2), the original behavior is back.  The bright side is that 
through the changes the man page has been an accurate reference.


- -- 
     -Matt

Never reveal your best argument.
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