["Luis Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3947/6mjgnrl80?a=view says that
ce does actually support promiscuous mode.

You might have to change something in /kernel/drv/ce.conf but honestly
I do not knopw what.


Luis



On 2/18/07, William Murphy <William.Murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Supposedly....i have tried with tethereal also and it has same effect.No
> traffic captured
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Ontanon
> Sent: 18 February 2007 21:12
> To: Community support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Listening on Port mirrored interface
>
> does snoop work in promiscuous mode?
>
> On 2/18/07, William Murphy <William.Murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    Ok changed the rights on the file
> >
> > crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       11, 80 May 14  2006 clone@0:ce
> >
> > but this still does not make a difference. I did not restart the
> system.
> > Just changed rights and made trace which did not work.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis
> Ontanon
> > Sent: 18 February 2007 20:55
> > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Listening on Port mirrored interface
> >
> > I used to capture promiscous on sun boxen without any problem.
> >
> > So it might be an issue with permissions of the /dev/ node for the
> > interface which I remember I had to change myself.
> > .
> > Can you capture as root?
> > If so which are the permissions on /dev/ifname?
> > What happens if you change permissions on /dev/ifname so that it is
> > writable by the user, can you capture promiscuous then?
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > On 2/18/07, William Murphy <William.Murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > >    Thanks for getting back to me....tcpdump does not capture
> > either....i
> > > have been reading up on this and here it is.
> > > The laptop I use is not as secure as Sun server and the nic card can
> > be
> > > turned into promiscuous mode easily by software,
> > > But on the Sun server I don't think the software can turn it into
> > > promiscuous mode and thus the Nic card will not show the
> sniffer(i.e.
> > > snoop,tcpdump,tethereal,tshark) traffic from Mac address other than
> > its
> > > own mac address for security reasons.
> > >
> > > So I think now my question is:
> > >
> > > Is there a command I can run which will put the nic card on the SUN
> > > server(i.e. Solaris 10) into promiscuous mode?
> > >
> > > Agree with my thinking?
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis
> > Ontanon
> > > Sent: 18 February 2007 20:26
> > > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Listening on Port mirrored interface
> > >
> > > What about tcpdump, does it capture?
> > > What happen if you run it as root, can you capture?
> > > is /dev/ifname readable by the user you are trying to capture with?
> > >
> > > On 2/18/07, William Murphy <William.Murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > >    Don't know if this is the correct board to put this too but
> hear
> > > goes anyway.
> > > > I am having problems listening for packets on my Sun Machine.
> > > >
> > > > I have a F5 BIGIP switch on which I mirrored the traffic
> port(i.e.9)
> > > to another port 16 for listening and tracing. In port 16 bi run a
> > cable
> > > to my Sun Solaris V440 machine. On this machine I simply plumb the
> > > interface to where the cable is, give it a dummy ip address,netmask
> > and
> > > broadcast address and bring it up. Issue is when I run Tshark I see
> no
> > > packets.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas on what I have done wrong or even some tricks. When I
> > > connect my laptop instead of Sun server and run wireshark , then I
> can
> > > see packets that I want. I don't even give the laptop interface card
> a
> > > ip address, netmask and broadcast address and it still works.
> > > >
> > > > William
> > >
> > >
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