Reading raw ethernet

Paul Khavkine paul at distributel.net
Fri Aug 19 19:16:26 GMT 2005


Hi guys.


I'm writing a small program to read raw ethernet frames out of netgraph
to capture Spannign Tree packets from the switch.

Is it possible to pick up STP frames without putting the interface in
promiscuous mode ?

Thanx
Paul

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Paul Khavkine
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DISTRIBUTEL Communications.
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