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From: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark T. Sandrock)
Subject: reading Enet traffic in promiscuous mode
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 19:59:54 GMT
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I would like to run a program called "snoop" on our M/120 system, but it
requires the ability to read link-level Ethernet traffic in promiscuous mode.
Apparently SGI has several special protocols called: snoop and drain which
support this type of Ethernet access.

So, the question is: Does RISC/os have (or will it ever have) a similar
capability?

Thanks in advance.

Mark Sandrock



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