LARTC - Nov 2003 - newer iproute2: no support for "ip link set dev $DEV promisc on"

Greetings all,

I have tried to find a discussion of the removal of support for the
PROMISC interface flag with the iproute2 tools.

  - it used to work (iproute2-2.2.4-$ANCIENT)
  - there''s a comment about it in the iproute docs [0]
  - (un-)setting the flag with ifconfig still works

Can anybody point me to the discussion (linux-net, maybe?) where support
for setting the PROMISC flag was pulled from the "ip" utility. 
I''d like t
understand a bit better why this is so.

Thanks for any answers,

-Martin

 [0] http://www.detached.net/ip-routing/ip-cref/node10.html

-- 
Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com

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