Re: promiscuous eth0

["Kristian F. Høgh" <kfh@eucsyd.dk>]

Hi Jeff.

My pcmcia netcard also don't work when i switch on my laptop.
When i type ifconfig it prints:
UP BROADCAST RUNNING
then I enable multicast (ifconfig eth0 multicast)
It works and ifconfig prints
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

Kristian F. Høgh.


Jeff Coppock wrote:

> I recently install snort on my laptop to check it out and now my pcmcia network card will pass IP only when snort is running (daemon mode or not), or I have to put my network card in promiscuous mode [#ifconfig eth0 -promisc].
>
> I can't find any configuration that is obvious to me that would cause this, but I'm an intermediate linux user.  Any suggestions on where to look and what to look for?
>
> Also, are what problems might using promiscuous mode cause?
>
> thanks,
> jc
>
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