Honeypots: Re: Numberd int reqd for arpd?

[Earl <unorlist () yahoo com>]

Clarification... "numbered" as in with IP assigned.

Sorry about the delay...

Earl

--- Kyle Maxwell <krmaxwell () gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:56:02 -0700 (PDT), Earl
> <unorlist () yahoo com> wrote:
>  
> > Subject says it... Does arpd really require a
> > "numbered" interface to work?
> >
> > With an unnumbered interface I get:
> > arpd: bad interface configuration: not IP or
> Ethernet
> > If I number it, all's well.
> One would think that it would be required: without
> the number, there's
> no interface by that name. This is OS-dependent, I
> think, since with
> some Solaris tools you can specify the driver type
> (e.g. "hme", not
> necessarily "hme0" or "hme1"). But in Linux I
> haven't noticed a tool
> that worked this way.
>
> -- 
> Kyle Maxwell
> krmaxwell () gmail com

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