2009/304 IP PROMISC Flag

[Garrett D'Amore]

Girish M G wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> +1.   Although I'm not sure how useful this change will be.  (Is 
>> there some consuming software that needs/wants this?)
>
> It's just that we will be on-par with other Unix variants, when it 
> comes to supporting this standard flag.  Further, all the 
> SIOCGLIFFLAGS callers would start seeing this flag, hence forth.
>
> AFAIK, there is no way to know if underlying device is promiscuous or 
> not, using any of the CLI utilities, today. Going forward, 
> ifconfig(1m) is one way to do so.

Actually, there used to be a kstat(1M) for this.  I've not looked 
recently to see if the Nemo drivers still support it.

    - Garrett
>
> thanks
> ~Girish