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Enable/Disable promiscous mode for Linux network interfaces (ip command)
# Enable
ip link set eth1 promisc on
# Check with
netstat -i
# You should see something like this
eth0 1500 0 26631 0 0 0 27143 0 0 0 BMPRU
# disable
ip link set eth1 promisc off
# Check with
netstat -i
# You should see something like this
eth0 1500 0 26631 0 0 0 27143 0 0 0 BMRU
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