RE: Unable to receive alerts

[Erek Adams <erek () snort org>]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) wrote:

> Thanks Joe.
> But still, when I am running the snortd script,
> my network interface remains in promiscous mode and I am losing network
> connection.
>
> Why my network connection is getting disabled when I run the snortd
> script?
> Am I doing something wrong?

Well, If your wireless card works like mine does, when you enter promisc
mode, it can't associate with the AP anymore, since it's listening on 'all
channels'.  Try starting Snort with the "-p" option.

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams

   "When things get weird, the weird turn pro."   H.S. Thompson


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