Once the promiscuous mode option is enabled, Skytap exposes a promiscuous mode permission setting on each user and administrator user account. If the promiscuous mode permission option is visible in the permissions list, this feature is enabled.Įditing promiscuous mode permissions for user and administrator accounts If possible, provide a simple network diagram.Īdministrators: To check if promiscuous mode is enabled for your customer account, navigate to Manage > Users and click on your own user account name to view your user account details. To speed up the process, please include a detailed description of how you intend to use promiscuous mode. To request the use of promiscuous mode in your account, contact mode requests must be approved by Skytap and can take up to two weeks to complete.

Requesting the promiscuous mode option for a customer accountīy default, promiscuous mode is disabled on all network adapters, and the user permission associated with promiscuous mode is hidden. Because Skytap sends traffic only to network adapters that actively use a specific MAC address, promiscuous mode doesn't allow passive observation of network traffic.Network adapters with promiscuous mode can't accept unicast traffic intended for other VMs or traffic between other VMs within the same network.Promiscuous mode should not be confused with port mirroring or span ports, where a network switch can send a copy of all traffic in a particular network to a particular port on another network.

Wireshark promiscuous mode description