On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Brian D Chase wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	I wouldn't have thought this would be down to ifconfig - rather it
> > 	should be via a system call on the interface from within the mop
> > 	server. On an SGI it would probably be... (falls back to egrep in
> > 	/usr/include)
> 
> Ah, I guess I'm too conditioned to Linux.  Their ifconfig provides a
> switch for setting an ethernet device into promiscuous mode.  I guess this
> is non-standard, but it is sort of a nice feature.
> 
	Though it does break the 'remain in promisc mode until last
	process closes fd' paradigm :) 
	Up until now I've not had to put up with an app that wanted
	promisc mode that couldn't set it...

> > 	OK, looks like you open /dev/llc2, plug DL_PROMISCON_REQ into
> > 	a dl_promiscon_req_t struct, and putmsg() it to the fd... oh,
> > 	and then getmsg() and decode the response.... yum.
> 
> Excellent.  Of course now I've got to dig up the mopd code I'd modified a
> few months ago to get it to compile under IRIX.  Where did I put that?

	(grins)... good luck!

		David/absolute

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