On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Gene Lee wrote:

> I think I know where the source of the confusion stems from. In earlier
> versions of netstat.c, the source indeed has a reference to promiscuous
> mode. Here's netstat.c from net-tools-1.34.

Ah, good catch!  Another good reason why checking the source code is
important for critical systems.

> And Redhat 7.2 is using net-tools-1.6, which I assume is where you got your
> code snippet from.

It looks like someone did some good house cleaning, I generally start by
checking the source of what I'm currently running, which is 7.2ish.

Paul
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