Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.18 and promiscuous on Solaris 2 .8

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From: "Wu, Andrew" <awu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:23:24 -0700
I tried both 0.6.2 and 0.6.26 downloaded from tcpdump.org. Same result.

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Best regards,
Andrew Wu.

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// Andrew Yauhwa Wu,                                    awu@xxxxxxxxx //
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Ramirez [mailto:gram@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 17:01
> To: Wu, Andrew
> Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.18 and promiscuous 
> on Solaris
> 2.8
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:06:49PM -0700, Wu, Andrew wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have Ethereal 0.8.18 installed on two Solaris 2.8 
> systems, one is a
> > Ultra10 with hme NIC and one is a Compaq Deskpro with elxl 
> NIC. Ethereal
> > running on these two systems cannot put the network interface into
> > promiscuous mode, but snoop can. Is there any special 
> configuration I need
> > to apply in order to make Ethereal to be able to put NIC 
> into promiscuous
> > mode? TIA.
> 
> What version of libpcap are you using? libpcap is the packet
> capture library that Ethereal uses.
> 
> --gilbert
>