wirecutters/stanley knife as appropriate - cut the tx wires in the cable to the card. In one case where the box had to absolutely silent (hacker proof, undetectable monitoring - think it was the honeypot project where I saw this one?), the wires from the socket to the circuit board on the card itself were cut.
BillK 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. > > At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, > on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. > What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually > not detectable on a given lan segment? > Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 > > Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and > gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > > James > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- [email protected] mailing list
