Linux enable promiscuous mode

I was using Debian to run NTOP and monitor my network. After setting up the port mirror, I realized no traffic was flowing to that ethernet adapter. To allow that adapter to listen to traffic, you need to put it in promiscuous mode. you can do this by putting in: ifconfig ethx promisc where X is the eth #

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