Re: Portscan on an Unaddressed sniffer port

[Valter Santos <vsantola () sectoid com>]

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Timothy,

just fire up the scan against the network that the snort box is
monitoring, if everything is working okay snort should alert the
scanning attempts.

You don't scan ipless interfaces, they are ipless just to prevent stuff
like these :-)

have fun
/valter



Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I have an odd request -
>
> I need to do some sort of scan on an unaddressed sniffing interface on a
> SNORT box to test the installation to see if it is all working right.  I
> have a port scanner on my UBUNTU laptop that I could use if I knew how
> to address the port.
>
> The management interface on the box (it's a FC4 box) is 192.168.0.28 and
> that's eth1
>
> The unaddressed port is eth0 on the same box
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome
>
> TIM
>
>
> Timothy A. Holmes
> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
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