Re: promiscuous mode

"Gregor Rot" <gregor.rot@siol.net> wrote in
news:HPRMa.1997$78.132750@news.siol.net:

> Hi,
>
> i would like to check if interfaces are in promiscuous mode, and
> eventually, put then in not-promiscuous mode...how do i do that under
> Debian?
>
> tnx,
> Greg

s[tupid]imple script:
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#!/bin/bash

if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo "usage: $0 <interface>" $'\n'"example: $0 eth0";
exit 1;
fi

/sbin/ifconfig $1 | grep -i promisc 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
/sbin/ifconfig $1 -promisc
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
echo "failed setting $1 in non-promisc mode"
exit 1;
else
echo "$1 set in non-promisc mode"
exit 0;
fi
else
echo "$1 not running in promiscious mode"
exit 1;
fi
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P.Krumins