Re: The patch of gnumach to enable the user to set the network device into the promiscuous mode

[Zheng Da]

I copied the code from http://perso.hurdfr.org/mmenal/promisc.patch.
I think only the root should be able to set the flags.

Zheng Da

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

Hello,

zhengda, le Fri 08 Aug 2008 06:44:16 +0200, a écrit :

> +    dev->flags = (flags &
> +            (IFF_BROADCAST | IFF_DEBUG | IFF_LOOPBACK |
> +             IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOTRAILERS | IFF_RUNNING |
> +             IFF_NOARP | IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_SLAVE
> +             | IFF_MASTER | IFF_MULTICAST))
> +        | (dev->flags & (IFF_SOFTHEADERS|IFF_UP));

Just to make sure: are all of these safe to let userland set?

Samuel