current-users: Re: /dev/tap and tcpdump don't go together very well?

Subject: Re: /dev/tap and tcpdump don't go together very well?
To: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/08/2007 06:47:14

Please be far more clear about how this is all supposed to work.
Running tcpdump on the host as '-i tap0' will put the tap device in
promiscuous mode.  But packets should still function in both directions.
Try adding -p to not force promiscuous mode.

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    Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>