On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, David Greenman wrote:

> >Why not use a link flag for this specific application?
> 
>    Probably not a bad idea, but there isn't anything defined in the current
> API to support it and there used to be a shortage of bits in struct ifnet.
> Both are pretty lame excuses, though.

One thing I should point out about this is that if it's turned on
and off with a link flag, non-superusers cannot turn this on and
off. I don't know that this is a huge problem, but on some machines
I run I let non-root types in a certain group sniff the network by
setting appropriate ownership and permissions on /dev/bpf*.

cjs
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