As for writing a program to use promiscuous mode, I wouldn't be surprised if such already exists, possibly amongst Dug Song's varied collection of "security tools" (do a Google for dsniff and you'll see what I mean).
http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/man2html?urlsnarf+8
Well lookie there.
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