From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:35 +0100
> Do you really consider that a realistic choice? Who is going to > remove interfaces that are in use just to see traffic for other > VLANs? Sniffing specific VLANs can always be done on the VLAN > device itself. Change the example to wanting to see traffic on another physical switch. How is this any different? > IMO its more a question of what we want promiscous mode to mean, > and I tend to agree with Joonwoo that it should receive all packets. On what LAN? When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN traffic to be elided. It is like plugging the ethernet cable into one switch or another. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
