Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:19:01 +0530 From: Siddhartha Jain <sid@netmagicsolutions.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is promiscuous mode bad? Message-ID: <4121D48D.2080002@netmagicsolutions.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 horio shoichi wrote: | On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:24:00 +0200 | Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: | |>On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 07:53:10PM -0700, Kevin Stevens typed: |> |>>A lot of network scanners also trigger on NICS in promiscuous mode |>>(there's a way to detect them, I forget the details at the moment) |>>because admins want to know if any hosts are out there sniffing. |> |>How sure are you about that? AFAIK there's no way to detect a NIC in |>promiscuous mode *from the outside*. I would be very interested in a network |>scanner that could. |> |>Ruben |> |>_______________________________________________ |>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list |>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions |>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" |> | | | Ping it with wrong mac. | Don't you have to be on the same broadcast domain to do a MAC ping? I mean how would you do a MAC ping over the internet? - -- Siddhartha Jain (CISSP) Consulting Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd Bombay - 400063 Phone: +91-22-26850001 Ext.128 Fax : +91-22-26850002 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBIdSMOGaxOP7knVwRAkUCAJ4m3u55mbVps9skAyr3OnMrMLxBBACffMDf blzs3L+y384dbZna0ZqCEwA= =dYSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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