Subject: Re: IP Forwarding works only when tcpdump'ing (1.4.2)
To: Frederik Meerwaldt <Meerwaldt@t-online.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/2000 14:10:46 
In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005221958500.1402-100000@server.wes.mee.com>, Freder
ik Meerwaldt writes:
>Enabling the promiscious mode should do the trick. I'm only working with
>FreeBSD on PCs, but there it's done with ifconfig <interface> promisc

If you're trying to emulate a router, you don't want to enable 
promiscuous mode.  Needing to do so generally means that something else 
is misconfigured.

		--Steve Bellovin