Re: Can snort listening Interface wtihout IP configured?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 04:44 PM 8/16/2003 +0800, samwun wrote:
> I want to setup Snort as an ethernet sniffer listening on a LAN card
> which has no IP address.
> Does a normal way start up of snort will meet this reqirement?
>
> Eg. Snort -c snort.conf

Yes you can do this.. it's in the FAQ under how to run snort on a stealth 
interface.


> 3.1 How do I setup snort on a 'stealth' interface?
>
>   *BSD and Linux:
>
>     ifconfig eth1 up


If you are running snort on windows, then read the FAQ itself as the answer 
is a bit long. http://www.snort.org/docs/FAQ.txt





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