Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces
Hi,
Are you sure that this machine wasn't compromised ???
Usually rootkits replace the ifconfig file with a
version that does not show the promiscous state.
Marlon
> --- "S.Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com> escreveu:
> >
>
> > Isn't ifconfig supposed to report if a network
> > interface is in
> > Promiscuous mode ? I thought it was.
> >
> > I am currently running a sid system with
> > kernel-2.4.2 and the only way
> > I have to check if a network has changed its
> > promiscuous status is to
> > grep through /var/log/kern.log. ifconfig says
> > nothing about it.
> >
> > Can anyone else confirm that this is a bug in
> > ifconfig in sid ?
> >
> > @phoenix:[/root] dpkg -S `which ifconfig`
> > net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig
> > @phoenix:[/root] dpkg -l|grep net-tools
> > ii net-tools 1.58-2 The NET-3
> > networking toolkit
> > @phoenix:[/root] uname -a
> > Linux phoenix 2.4.2 #3 Sat Feb 24 13:14:50 EST
> 2001
> > i686 unknown
> >
> >
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> > Salman Ahmed
> > ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
> >
> >
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