From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 7:58: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gradwell.com (mail.gradwell.com [194.205.225.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE0C137BCA9 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: (qmail 14294 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 15:57:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO merlin.onsea.com) (212.49.243.227) by mail.gradwell.com with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 15:57:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA86297; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:58:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:58:24 +0100 (BST) From: Cliff Rowley To: thursday@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous mode In-Reply-To: <0003301051147W.18109@weba6.iname.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------- | dozprompt@onsea.com | cliff@olive.co.uk | | cr@4site-media.com | cr@soccergen.com | | cr@easyphp.net | cr@beatreatreat.com | ------------------------------------------- - while (!asleep) { code(); } 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: > > 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! > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message