Reading raw ethernet

From: Paul Khavkine (paul_at_distributel.net)
Date: 08/19/05

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    Hi guys.

    I'm writing a small program to read raw ethernet frames out of netgraph
    to capture Spannign Tree packets from the switch.

    Is it possible to pick up STP frames without putting the interface in
    promiscuous mode ?

    Thanx
    Paul

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