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Re: [cobalt-security] promisc and Cobalt kernel
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] promisc and Cobalt kernel
- From: Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:32:24 -0700
- Organization: Cobalt Networks, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gossi The Dog wrote:
> I've got a bizzare problem on owned.lab6.com. We run snort as our IDS.
> Since installing the RPM for the kernel to the fix the latest security
> problems, if I run something else which tries to put the NIC into promisc
> mode (for example, another sniffer), all networking drops out on the box
> completely. It sits logging stuff in syslog and is alive, but I can't
> print/traceroute or get any kind of response from it. I'm thinking its a
> kernel problem - can anybody else test?
Hmm.. I will forward this off to our kernel guys and see if they
can give more of an idea on this.
Jeff
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Jeff Lovell
Sun Microsystems Inc.