From owner-freebsd-net Sun May 28 0: 6:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from juice.shallow.net (node16229.a2000.nl [24.132.98.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD3237B8B9 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 00:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@roughtrade.net) Received: from localhost (joshua@localhost) by juice.shallow.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04399; Sun, 28 May 2000 09:05:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from joshua@roughtrade.net) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:05:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Joshua Goodall To: Steve Shah Cc: Mike Silbersack , Olaf Hoyer , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF vs. promiscuous mode In-Reply-To: <20000524072320.C14568@clickarray.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > What would have been entertaining is to try and put ever student > on their own subnet. This would keep the script kiddies from > doing broadcast based attacks since all the other hosts would just > ignore the packets within the first few checks in their IP stack. > There are certainly enough networks to support a few thousand > 30 bit netmasks.... > The RIR's should beat you into the ground with a cluestick if you try that. - J To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message