putting nic card on promiscuous mode...

[mia_tech]

I'm running bcacktrack on one of my vmware machines and while running the program scanrand, the os tried to put the card in promiscuous mode, and got error "unable to put card on promiscuous mode for security reasons"..........does anybody know if it is possible to enable promiscuous mode?

Thanks

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looking for tips and tutorials?

http://www.pcteckonline.org

[continuum]

VMs on Windows-hosts are always in promiscuous mode.

Don't know about Vista.

Read

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network-advanced.html

[mia_tech]

ohh, I forgot to mention I'm running vmware on ubuntu

[AWo]

On which plattform (VMWare Server, Workstation, ESX) In case of ESX 3.x you have to set the virtual switches into promiscuous mode, too.

For VM Workstation/GSX and Linux guest take a look here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/287

AWo

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[continuum]

@ AWO - thanks for the link - added this to my network-settings page

[jaymemaurice]

did this error come from vmware or from backtrack/scanrand?

if it came from scanrand/backtrack then it is likely because you arent running as root within the backtrack VM and you need to be root to put the interface in promiscious mode. try `sudo scanrand` within you backtrack vm.

[Andrew_Judge]

\[root@lnxvm01 ~]# ifconfig eth0 promisc

\[root@lnxvm01 ~]# ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:43:51:5F

inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe43:515f/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:24532271 errors:41 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:20068030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:2524533713 (2.3 GiB) TX bytes:3197002387 (2.9 GiB)

Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1080

\[root@lnxvm01 ~]# ifconfig eth0 -promisc

\[root@lnxvm01 ~]# ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:43:51:5F

inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe43:515f/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:24533093 errors:41 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:20068520 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:2524608632 (2.3 GiB) TX bytes:3197041495 (2.9 GiB)

Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1080

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