Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Kazutoshi Morioka
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> KM> A patch from Tatsuo Sekine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fixed this >> KM> bug. Kondara's newer kernel package includes this patch. >> KM> >> KM> I checked Kondara with 2.4.0test which I compiled, and I can see >> KM> same

Ldap security?

2001-03-17 Thread Moe Harley
I'm playing with the idea of adding an ldap service/daemon to my debian machine. But before running one, I wanted to get a good idea of what the general opinion of ldap servers is as far as security is concerned. I also was wondering if anyone had any opinions on which one I should use? The only o

Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Kazutoshi Morioka
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> KM> A patch from Tatsuo Sekine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fixed this >> KM> bug. Kondara's newer kernel package includes this patch. >> KM> >> KM> I checked Kondara with 2.4.0test which I compiled, and I can see >> KM> same

Ldap security?

2001-03-17 Thread Moe Harley
I'm playing with the idea of adding an ldap service/daemon to my debian machine. But before running one, I wanted to get a good idea of what the general opinion of ldap servers is as far as security is concerned. I also was wondering if anyone had any opinions on which one I should use? The only

Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Marcus Beranek
Am 16.3.2001, 20:32 (-0500) schrieb S.Salman Ahmed: > > Isn't ifconfig supposed to report if a network interface is in > Promiscuous mode ? I thought it was. Hi, I have the same behaviour on my machine. ifconfig doesn't show the PROMISC-mode of eth0. Whem I'm using 'iproute' instead of ifconfig,

Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Marcus Beranek
Am 16.3.2001, 20:32 (-0500) schrieb S.Salman Ahmed: > > Isn't ifconfig supposed to report if a network interface is in > Promiscuous mode ? I thought it was. Hi, I have the same behaviour on my machine. ifconfig doesn't show the PROMISC-mode of eth0. Whem I'm using 'iproute' instead of ifconfig

Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Kazutoshi Morioka
FYI, I experienced similar bug with Kondara, the japanese distribution (http://www.kondara.org/) uses 2.2.x kernel. In that case, IPv6-patch changed libpcap's behavior about promiscuous mode to incompatible with kernel. A patch from Tatsuo Sekine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fixed this bug. Kondara's newer

Re: ifconfig doesn't report Promiscuous interfaces

2001-03-17 Thread Andres Salomon
Check out http://members.nbci.com/dsinet/network-sniffers/interface-promiscuity-obscurity.txt The only other thing I can think of is, something (or someone) is resetting interface flags (not even sure if that's still possible, the article's from '98), or there's some subtle bug in the nic's drive