[netflow-tools] Setting up softflowd - set promiscuous or not?

[Damien Miller]

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