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wirecutters/stanley knife as appropriate - cut the tx wires in the cable |
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to the card. In one case where the box had to absolutely silent (hacker |
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proof, undetectable monitoring - think it was the honeypot project where |
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I saw this one?), the wires from the socket to the circuit board on the |
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card itself were cut. |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> |
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> For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet |
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> interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). |
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> Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? |
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> Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. |
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> I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more |
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> elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving |
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> packets for analysis and logging would be better. |
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> |
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> At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, |
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> on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. |
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> What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually |
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> not detectable on a given lan segment? |
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> Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: |
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> |
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> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 |
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> Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and |
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> gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. |
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> |
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> TIA, |
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> |
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> James |
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> |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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