> the TX disabling is certainly the most subtle way of going about
> it, but also
> the most awkward
Awkward if done in hardware. However, I imagine that it would
be fairly trivial to add an option like rx-only to ifconfig and
let the networking layers in the kernel simply refuse to send
any packets to the driver for the interface.
Later,
Kenn
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