>  This goes back to something that mouse wanted awhile ago: a way to
>turn IPv4 off on a given interface so he could just use tcpdump. I suspect
>that we should have a per-interface vector of per-protocol flags that allows
>us to turn any protocol off.

for situations like that, i used to just ifconfig my lan-line to
0.0.0.0 and then plug it in.  seemed to work fine for me.  it didn't
expresly inhibit traffic in and out (ipfw could do that i guess, but
there's no ipfw for ipv6 yet, right?) but i could certainly tcpdump.

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