Python Sockets: Enabling Promiscuous Mode in Linux

Question

We know that Python Allows enabling promiscuous mode under Windows through

s.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_ON)

However, The RCVAL

Answer 1

There is another way I thought of. Maybe not as elegant but seems to work fine.

In linux (with root permissions), one can use :

# ifconfig eth0 promisc
# ifconfig eth0 -promisc

To enable/ disable promisc mode on your interface (eth0 in this case).

So, in python (with root permissions) one could use :

import os
ret =  os.system("ifconfig eth0 promisc")
if ret == 0:
     

Comments are welcome on this way of doing it.