Re: Promiscuous mode

[quentyn () fotango com]

Paul Enlund wrote:
> Tried upgrading from Snort 1.8.6 to 1.9 on a Debian 2.2.20 system
> and I find that the eth0 interface enters promiscuous mode then
> returns back to normal.
>
> Options used are.
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- \
>    -D -c /etc/snort/snort.conf \
>    -l /var/log/snort/ \
>    -b
>
> I also tried 1.8.7 and this also suffers the same problem I find with
> 1.9
>
> Anybody seen this before and know the solution ?
>
> Paul Enlund

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I saw it as well 

however when I built a new snort box with snort 1.9.0 the problem hasn't
manifested it's self yet ( I had forgotten till I saw your post) 

I *think* it was a bug in 1.8.7 though with no proof or time to
investigate I left it 

Q
 
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