RE: ifconfig may not correctly show promiscuous mode under linux

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Friday, August 15, 2003 5:30 PM -0400 Gordon Cunningham 
<gacunningham () bellsouth net> wrote:
>         ifconfig eth1 up promisc
>
> in my startup for each additional interface and things were fine.  I'm
> running RedHat 8.0 with patches, 4 snort sessions, and 8 barnyard sessions
> on this test unit.  Ifconfig properly showed me the interfaces were NOT in
> promiscuous mode when I brought them up without the "promisc" on the
> ifconfig command line and then started snort.
>
> Apparently, your mileage may vary.
promisc is deprecated according to the docs.  ifconfig eth1 up should be 
sufficient, with no additional parameters.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu


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