Re: Forcing an interface into promis mode at bootup

[David Gadbois <gadbois () computer org>]

gfricke () hushmail com wrote:
> I know this is more of a Linux question, but my application is on my Linux box running snort as a NIDS.  How do you 
> configure an interface (eth0) to be in proisc mode during the execution of the network script at bootup.  I have set 
> the eth0 to be a black interface and would like it to be in promisc mode on boot so that I don't have to shell in and 
> type the command every time it reboots.  Thanks in advance.

Others have mentioned adding "promisc" to the ifconfig command line.  If
you are using Red Hat-style startup scripts, you can add a line
"PROMISC=yes" to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

--David Gadbois

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