From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2007-05-16T00:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ARP requests

On 5/15/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> into promiscuous mode.  This causes the adapter to pass all traffic
> into the OS, not just traffic addressed to the machine. This is how
> tools like ethereal do this.

pcap will put the interface into promiscuous mode.

The problem is that switches will not forward the traffic.

Unfortunately, I don't know any real solution to the problem.

Eivind.