NIC Promiscuous Mode

[Luke -Jr]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Greg Lawson wrote:
> I need to demonstrate the differences of a NIC being in promiscuous mode
> and when it's not for a college class. Can anyone think of any good
> shell commands to run "before and after" which show what traffic the NIC
> can and can't see?

tcpdump -p = without promiscuous mode
tcpdump    = with    promiscuous mode

Note that in virtually all cases, there are no differences...