Hi! On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:19:56 +0000 (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet > interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). > Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? > Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. > I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more > elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving > packets for analysis and logging would be better.
I don't really know how to do this, but the first thing that came into my mind was to configure a firewall so that it drops every packet going outside. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein)
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