kern/166255: [net] [patch] It should be possible to disable "promiscuous mode enabled" messages

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 22 12:40:15 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR kern/166255; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/166255: [net] [patch] It should be possible to disable
 "promiscuous mode enabled" messages
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:31:09 +0400

 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:46:31AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
 E> >Fix:
 E> 
 E> 	The following patch introduces new sysctl named
 E> 	net.link.log_promisc_mode_change with default value 1.
 E> 	One may change it to 0 to disable mentioned warnings.
 
 IMHO, it'll be better to provide not a boolean, but a unsigned
 integer that specifies the desired log level, first argument of
 log(9). LOG_DEBUG would work for those, who don't want to see such
 messages.
 
 -- 
 Totus tuus, Glebius.


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