From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jan 4 7:23:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBB314E6E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 07:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 125Vnm-0006Kf-00; Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:23:14 -0700 Message-ID: <38721113.FBC3B90E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:26:11 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DRHAGER@de.ibm.com Cc: Olaf Hoyer , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sniffing networks References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org DRHAGER@de.ibm.com wrote: > > Hi! > > Just have the same problem in our students-home network... > Peer-to-peer network, every OS present, of course no central > administration... ;-( > #Would not help anyway... > 150 users conected... > > OK: How do you perform a search for cards in promiscuous mode? > (Taking some expensive analyzer progs or some simple stuff under UN*X, > Linsux or NT?) Why would you want to search for network interfaces in promiscuous mode? Stick the users on switched ports so they can't sniff other users packets and be done with it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message