From: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:35 +0100
> Do you really consider that a realistic choice? Who is going to
> remove interfaces that are in use just to see traffic for other
> VLANs? Sniffing specific VLANs can always be done on the VLAN
> device itself.
Change the example to wanting to see traffic on another
physical switch.
How is this any different?
> IMO its more a question of what we want promiscous mode to mean,
> and I tend to agree with Joonwoo that it should receive all packets.
On what LAN?
When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN
traffic to be elided. It is like plugging the ethernet cable
into one switch or another.
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