Re: promiscuous eth0

["Jeff Coppock" <jcoppock@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi,

Turning on Multicast works.  I like this better than turning on promiscuous.  I need to figure out why this isn't turning on automagically at startup.  If multicast is not set in the kernel, will that cause this?  Makes sense to me.

jc

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:01:06PM +0100, Kristian F. H?gh wrote:
> 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