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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550: Chkroot results question



On Thursday 13 March 2003 20:40, John D. Gorena wrote:
> I run chkrootkit on my systems daily ...
> On one of the Raq550's I get an extra like
>    eth0 is not promisc
>    eth0:1 is not promisc  [most times it is "eth0:0 is not promisc"]
>    eth1 is not promisc
>
> On the others I get
>    eth0 is not promisc
>    eth1 is not promisc
>
> What really does not promisc mean?

It means the interface will receive ALL packets on the network.
Normally it would only receive packets addressed to it.

> What is eth0:1 ?
>
Each ip address has a port
eth0:0	ipaddress1
eth0:1	ipaddress2
eth0:2	ipaddress3

and so forth

look at the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
ifcfg-eth0 and so forth

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