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RE: Snort on Linux Help


From: Michael Aylor <maylor () swbanktx com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:47:45 -0600

Oh yeah, thought of something else.


When you run ntsysv, does ipchains or iptables show as startup daemons?
If so, uncheck them, reboot.


Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wilkeson [mailto:davelist () cboss com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:15 AM
To: Chris Grout; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Snort on Linux Help


At 03:39 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote:
I'll ask the dumb questions...

1.  With Snort or your Ethereal running, does 'ifconfig' really show
that interface as being in promiscious mode?

Nope.  However, when I type "ifconfig eth0 promisc" it goes into 
promiscuous mode, but it doesn't change the output of ethereal or 
snort.  So to recap, the syslog indicates the interface entering and 
leaving promiscuous mode, but ifconfig does not report it in promiscuous

mode unless I manually put it into promiscuous mode.

2.  You are running this as root or with root priveledges right?  I'd
expect it to complain loudly if you weren't but figured I'd ask
anyways.
You do need root privs to put the NIC in to promisc mode and it sounds
like syslog is reporting it as working. (but these are thee dumb
questions)

Yes I am.

3.  What brand of Linux?  RedHat? Debian? Suse?

Redhat, loaded by Dell.

4.  With it running, do a 'netstat -i' (obsfucate your IP just to be
safe), and send me the output.  I think '-i' works in linux...

Are you sure that's the one you want?  It really doesn't show much of 
anything other than counters.

Dave



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