Re: disabling promiscuous mode sniffing

[Nigel Houghton <nigel.houghton () sourcefire com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 14:05, Rob Burris wrote:
> The -p option is used to disable promiscuous mode sniffing.

yes, just as you might use 'tcpdump -p'

> I use it as the first option when starting snort from the command line.> I am still getting reports of scans to 
> different hosts on my network.

Can you explain this a little further?

> After starting snort is there a way to check and see if snort did NOT start in promiscuous mode?
>
> - Rob B.
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Nigel Houghton       Security Engineer        Sourcefire Inc.

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