Portscan on an unaddressed sniffing interface

[David G. Miller]

tholmes at mcaschool.net wrote:

>Hi folks:
>
>I have an odd request -
>
>I need to do some sort of scan on an unaddressed sniffing interface on a
>SNORT box to test the installation to see if it is all working right.  I
>have a port scanner on my UBUNTU laptop that I could use if I knew how
>to address the port.
>
>The management interface on the box (it's a FC4 box) is 192.168.0.28 and
>that's eth1
>
>The unaddressed port is eth0 on the same box
>
>Any suggestions would be most welcome
>
>TIM
>
>
>Timothy A. Holmes
>IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
> 
>Medina Christian Academy
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>  
>
Check out nmap using the MAC address of the port you want to scan.  It 
be able to do the port scan using just the MAC address.  This is from 
reading the man page so good luck.

Cheers,
Dave