On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +0000, James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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've never used this one, but the idea of a Honeypot is simple and
sounds like what you are looking for.

 emerge -s honey
Searching...
[ Results for search key : honey ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  net-analyzer/honeyd [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 1.0-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 2,566 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/
      Description: Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts
on a network
      License:     GPL-2

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