On 26 Mar 2001, Raghav Sood wrote: | hi all | how can u put a network card in promiscious mode without assigning it an ip | address. is it possible to do in solaris if yes then how ??? Sure it's possible... ifconfig hme0 plumb ifconfig hme0 0.0.0.0 up snoop -d hme0 ... Replace "hme0" with the interface name you happen to be concerned with. /dale