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From: icsu6000@caesar.cs.mtsu.edu (Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: low-level IO question...
Message-ID: <14519@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 24 May 88 15:00:26 GMT
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Posted: Tue May 24 11:00:26 1988


  I have a mVAX II running ULTRIX 2.0.  I want to write a program that
will do 'promiscuous' viewing of all the ethernet traffic so I can get some
statistics like packet sizes, proportion of one type of packet to another
and other things.  I assume that I'll have to open the device as root so I
can read it, but after that I can't seem to find the right system calls to
put 'er all together.  I've watched this done on a mVAX II running VMS 4.7,
and the only privilege needed was PHYSIO, but the Unix version has got me
stumped.

Thanx.
-- Jaye Mathisen
mathisen.sys_admin.sys_org
icsu6000%mtsunix1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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