Combining ethernet devices for sniffing

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Apr 27 23:54:07 UTC 2005



Harry Hoffman wrote:

> I'm trying to find an equivalent of netgraph, for FreeBSD, under linux 
> and am not having too much luck.
> 
> I thought that ethernet bonding would do the trick but after a little 
> bit of research it doesn't seem to be made for this task.

Exactly what is the task?

If it is simply to capture traffic on all interfaces is there any issue 
with using tcpdump with the "-i any" parameter?

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completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."

--Ford Prefect in "Mostly Harmless".




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