From: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T07:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: promiscuous mode

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Marco Biscetti <bisciasia@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have a wireless card of netgear and i want to make a code in ruby that
> set it in a promiscuous mode to read all packet in a lan for catch and
> block all wrong packet. (wrong packet according at rule of my boss).
> this program run in ubuntu 9.04 :)
> thank to all :)

just use:

system("<insert shell command to enable promisc mode>")

That's how you'd do it in ruby.  The problem *you* have to answer is
what that shell command actually is.

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