Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:01:30 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Sander van Dinten" <sander@joek.dnsq.org> Cc: "'Ralph Huntington'" <rjh@mohawk.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous mode Message-ID: <200112111901.fBBJ1bF07234@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:07:30 %2B0100." <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc>
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In message <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc>, "Sander van Dinten" write
s:
> Are you using some kind of an network sniffer?
>
> Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network
> packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your
> IP-address).
Some entropy gathering applications, e.g. egd, sniff the network on
occasion to gather randomness. Is this a possibility?
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