Re: starting eth without IP address

2005-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Kostas Magkos writes: > I want to start eth1 without an IP address and with no ARP running, so as > to use it just for sniffing. I can't figure out how do that. Give it an address of 0.0.0.0. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

RE: starting eth without IP address

2005-10-20 Thread Carlos Peón Costa
I'd got the same question and the most elegant way that I've found is to start it in another script, not in "networking", for example /etc/init.d/eth1 #!/bin/bash case "$1" in start) /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up ;; stop) /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/i

Re: starting eth without IP address

2005-10-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:00:56AM +0300, Kostas Magkos wrote: > As a temporary solution I added a 'ifconfig eth1 up' line in > /etc/init.d/networking but I really don't like this approach. I don't > think that it's even the right thing to do cause of upgrade issues. On a related note, I'd be inte