Re: Promiscuouls Mode Question

[Sten "\"s10\"" at Home <sten () ipjam com>]

Jim,

I have seen the same thing on some machines.
Some nic's do not switch to promisc mode properly.

I changed the snort startup script. I added extra
command after snort invocation:
  ifconfig eth0 promisc
that works.

grtz,
Sten

Jim Kipp wrote:
> If I run snort or tcpdump(on eth0), then do ifconfig -a eth0, it does
> not report PROMISC. Only when I manually set promisc does it report it.
> But tcpdump seems to be sniffing everything.  Is this normal?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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