Re: [Snort-users] Promiscuous mode, how-to?

On Nov 30, 2007 10:08 PM, Rachmat Hidayat Al-Anshar
<rachmat_hidayat_02@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys...
>
> There is so many reference telling us that we have to set the NIC on
> promiscuous mode
> before they can be ready to eavesdrop every single thing that flow on the
> network traffic,
> but so rarely telling us how to do that, how to configure it, how to make
> that thing
> happen (^^!), I need more explanation here...

ifconfig eth0 promisc

However, most of the tools you will use (snort, tcpdump, iptraf, etc.)
will handle this for you.

PaulM

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