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[cobalt-security] Re: chkrootkit entry??



> I am a bit concerned as I ran chkrootkit and everything looked OK until
> it got to the last few lines and it came up with these entries for
> sniffer
>
> Checking `sniffer'...
> eth0 is not promisc
> eth0:1 is not promisc

This is the end of a test to see if your NICs have been put into 
"promiscuous" mode for sniffing traffic on the same subnet.  You *want* to 
see "not promisc"