From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1530 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Mar 2003 23:11:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 456 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2003 23:11:36 -0000 From: Robert Cole Reply-To: robert.cole@support4linux.com Organization: Questnet Linux Training & Services To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:11:34 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303171511.34147.robert.cole@support4linux.com> Subject: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0 without an IP addy X-Archives-Salt: 54e69de8-7111-45ba-a316-8b1507da34aa X-Archives-Hash: 42c3a449112f7561a85070fe87f65fd1 I'm building stealth machines (logger, IDS, etc) without IP addresses and I need a way to activate an interface without an IP address in a switched environment. loading up the module isn't enough to send a broadcast so the switch negotiates a link and logs the mac. Anyone have an idea on how to send a broadcast to the switch with nothing setup in /etc/conf.d/net ? I've been trying mii-diag without success. I'm using the 3c59x driver in gentoo-sources. Gentoo rc3. Before I get into modifying the net.eth0 script I would like to see if tehre is something I'm missing here. :) Here's a link to what I'm trying to setup: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6222 Any help would be appreciated. When I'm complete with this I will submit it to the gentoo security docs. Robert -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list