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From: akhale@parc.xerox.com (Abhijit Khale)
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Subject: Re: Promiscuous mode in NIT
Keywords: Networks
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In article <9862@brazos.Rice.edu> soleil!gopstein@rutgers.edu (Rich Gopstein) writes:
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>I am playing with NIT, and I am having a problem with promiscuous mode
>reading.  The machine is a Sun 3/60C running 4.0.3.  The problem is that
>even in promiscuous mode (as root), I don't see any packets with the
>source address of my machine (the machine the program is running on).  I
>would like to be able to see ALL packets on the network, including those
>generated by my machine...

That is the way NIT functions. You dont see packets from your machine. 

Note, too that in versions of SunOS 4.x, the NIT interface drops a lot of
the packets becuase of buffer management problems , so you dont see all
packets on the network. 

Abhijit
akhale@parc.xerox.com