full-disclosure - Promiscious Device Detection

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Date: Fri Mar 10 01:04:26 2006
From: andfarm at gmail.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: Promiscious Device Detection

On 09 Mar 06, at 04:04, Q Beukes wrote:
> I am looking for linux utility that checks if a specified machine's
> network device is in promiscious mode or not.
>
> c source is prefered so I could maybe modify (if needed) it so it
> actively search for
> such devices and syslog such finds.

You can't search for promisc devices, as they don't advertise them-
selves in any way. Chkrootkit[1], though, will check the local machine
for a promisc interface, as well as other signs of possible badness.

[1]: http://www.chkrootkit.org/

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