alister <alister.w...@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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list