From djm at mindrot.org Wed Jul 24 13:25:53 2013 From: djm at mindrot.org (Damien Miller) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:25:53 +1000 (EST) Subject: [netflow-tools] Setting up softflowd - set promiscuous or not? In-Reply-To: <51CC2C3B.9050004@coochey.net> References: <51CC2C3B.9050004@coochey.net> Message-ID: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Giles Coochey wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm in the process of setting up softflowd 0.9.9 on a Centos 6.4 system > (compiled from source tarball). > > The daemon will listen to an unused interface that is receiving port mirrored > traffic (a.la. Span port) > > I am planning on using the softflowd init script and sysconfig file provided > in the tar ball. > > Do I need to manually put the unused interface into promiscuous mode, or will > softflowd / the init script take care of that for me? libpcap (called by softflowd) usually does it automatically. There should be no need for you to do it. -d