On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2011-04-20, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I agree though that you're kind of pushing IP in a direction it wasn't >>> intended to go. >> >> It just occurred to me: You might get some additional mileage out of >> popping the network adapter into promiscuous mode. In fact, it Might >> be necessary irrespective of the rest of your approach. > > The network adapter is already receiving all the packets I want to > receive, so putting it into promiscuous mode would only increase the > number of unwanted packets.
I think tcpdump and tshark (was tethereal) will put the interface into promiscuous mode so it can see more traffic; on OSF/1 (Tru64), we had to do this manually for said programs to see all that was possible (barring the presence of a switch not repeating packets the way routers and hubs would). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list