netflow tools - Jun 2013 - Setting up softflowd - set promiscuous or not?

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?

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Regards,

Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
+44 (0) 7983 877438
http://www.coochey.net
http://www.netsecspec.co.uk
giles-ah8MpqMvNzvR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org

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