From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10595 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Mar 2003 23:55:37 -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 21020 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2003 23:55:37 -0000 Message-ID: <3E766076.70209@seul.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:55:34 +0100 From: Marko Mikulicic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030314 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert.cole@support4linux.com CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200303171511.34147.robert.cole@support4linux.com> In-Reply-To: <200303171511.34147.robert.cole@support4linux.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0 without an IP addy X-Archives-Salt: 2af2ae41-0d01-49a6-a654-1dbc8e586a00 X-Archives-Hash: 1bc1381f1c55fce01beea3f5a9777fbe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Cole wrote: | 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 think the simplest way is to add "ifconfig eth0 up" in /etc/conf.d/local.start. It's quite a specific situation, I don't know if it's worth to put in default scripts. Marko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+dmB1j0pLiOk7oZoRAnjzAJ4+q4xWcXCKuuMan5ReOam6Wuon7ACaAsRt TZQiAc68LcKAvySahDTdug0= =oAfY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list