Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.18 and promiscuous on Solaris 2.8

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:01:13 -0400
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:06:49PM -0700, Wu, Andrew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Ethereal 0.8.18 installed on two Solaris 2.8 systems, one is a
> Ultra10 with hme NIC and one is a Compaq Deskpro with elxl NIC. Ethereal
> running on these two systems cannot put the network interface into
> promiscuous mode, but snoop can. Is there any special configuration I need
> to apply in order to make Ethereal to be able to put NIC into promiscuous
> mode? TIA.

What version of libpcap are you using? libpcap is the packet
capture library that Ethereal uses.

--gilbert