> But tcpdump may well reset it. Better to do it properly. SIOCDEVPRIVATE
> exists for a reason
IMHO tcpdump should not reset it if it's already set when tcpdump
is started or have I missed something? But the SIOCDEVPRIVATE solution
seems to be a little cleaner (although it would need another setup
utility to be written, I think).
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Lisp Users: Due to the holiday, there will be no garbage collection on Monday."