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| author | pdw <> | 2003-06-06 22:42:35 +0000 |
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| committer | pdw <> | 2003-06-06 22:42:35 +0000 |
| commit | 4089483e6ab31e8a899928d259a4b11535519124 (patch) | |
| tree | e32f1f48b31fb18c5b74fa585e763a321fbd0255 /README | |
| parent | c7429ed887fd49a32e25bdfcf336f6ecae9bd028 (diff) | |
| download | iftop-4089483e6ab31e8a899928d259a4b11535519124.zip | |
Solaris/autoconf patch from Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@ganymeta.org>
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@@ -26,10 +26,17 @@ option to configure. Solaris: -On Solaris, libpcap does not capture outgoing packets unless it is run on an -interface in promiscuous mode. Therefore, you will need to use the -p option -to iftop to get sensible results. Cf. - http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2002/02/msg00010.html +On Solaris, iftop has to run in promiscuous mode in order to capture +outgoing packets. iftop autoconfigures to run in promiscuous mode on +Solaris, but will filter out non-broadcast packets which are not +addressed to or from localhost. On Solaris, the -p option merely +disables that filter. + +If you have some other sort of system that behaves like Solaris in +needing promiscuous mode, you can pass --enable-default-promiscuous to +configure to enable this behavior. + +Cf. http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2002/02/msg00010.html The version of curses distributed with Solaris may not be sufficient for iftop's needs. You will probably need ncurses or similar. |