Re: Capturing promiscuously on all interfaces in Linux

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:24:25AM -0800, Joe Amici wrote:
> The man page did indicate some issue with promiscuous
> capture on the "any"  interface. I wanted to confirm 
> this.

The man page is entirely correct; as it says, promiscuous mode doesn't
work on the "any" device.

> Also, if this is a recognized issue in 0.6.2, has
> there been any sort of resolution in later (cvs)
> releases?

No.  Nobody has ever written code to support promiscuous mode on the
"any" device; I don't know offhand what would be involved in doing so.

You can, of course, run multiple instances of tcpdump on different
interfaces.
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