Hi Rick,
One note, a catch-22 I found. In order to put the interface into promiscuous mode, it has to run as root. But since root doesn't 'own' the X server, it couldn't open a window! Somebody finally told me about sux - it works like su, but also allows root to run X applications.
possibly you could also do xhost +localhost in usermode, and export DISPLAY=localhost:0 in root mode, or even open an ssh session using the -X switch ;) best regards, -- %%%%%% ( ö ö .) ----oOOo--(_)-oOOo-------------------------------------------- Klaus Sausen [developer] confession: gnu/linux page : http://deepblur.org ---------------Ooooo------------------------------------------ ooooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)