Promiscuous ports under Linux

[Marko Rauhamaa]

alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com>:

> On Wed, 03 May 2017 23:57:49 +0000, Peter Pearson wrote:
>
>> Cobbling together a minimalist ethernet-sniffing program, I was
>> hoping to use this simple mechanism for setting the socket to
>> "promiscuous mode" (to see all traffic going past, instead of just
>> traffic addressed to my machine):
>
> [...]
>
> any particular reason why you wish to re-invent this particular wheel
> when wireshark is freely available (& the de-facto tool of choice for
> most network engineers)

There are a million plausible reasons. "Just because" is among the
noblest of them.

Your question has the ring of: Why do you want to compose music when you
can simply turn on the radio?


Marko