Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:58:24 +0100 (BST) From: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> To: thursday@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous mode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003301657060.84135-100000@merlin.onsea.com> In-Reply-To: <0003301051147W.18109@weba6.iname.net>
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Have you run anything like tcpdump? ethereal? Promiscous mode isnt a
"bad thing", it just means that it is in a state that allows the packets
that it receives/sends to be 'viewed' by a privellaged user (i.e. root).
Cliff Rowley
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 thursday@altavista.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My FreeBSD machine is connected to the internet via an sdsl line. I'm running sendmail, httpd, ssh, and natd for my two windows machines to have net access (with a wide-open firewall since I've never been able to get firewall_type=simple to allow natd to do its work--but that's for another email.)
>
> This morning the security check output mailed to root contained this:
>
> <machine.domain.com> kernel log messages:
> > rl0: promiscuous mode enabled
>
> My questions are: how did this happen, and how can I take it out of promiscuous mode?
>
> Bear in mind, I don't know much about promiscuous mode other than it's bad for security.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!
>
>
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