[ILUG] "Ghost Sniffer"

[David Murphy]

Quoting <NBBBIGEGHIGMPCNKHCECMEHBDNAA.kenn at bluetree.ie>
by Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>:

> > the TX disabling is certainly the most subtle way of going about 
> > it, but also
> > the most awkward
> 
> Awkward if done in hardware.  However, I imagine that it would
> be fairly trivial to add an option like rx-only to ifconfig and
> let the networking layers in the kernel simply refuse to send
> any packets to the driver for the interface.

I know it can be done in Solaris - see under
http://www.cymru.com/~robt

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