From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 8:52:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1038C37BE3E for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:52:44 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27373; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:52:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:52:43 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Andy Dills Cc: Jan Grant , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous ethernet In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andy Dills wrote: > This was the first thing out of my mouth when I was given this project. I > was told that this isn't acceptable, as the powers that be feel that the > people in question would be overwhelmed merely by being directed to open > up the TCP/IP properties. It's the kind of deal where we _really_ have to > cater to these people. I'm not sure you can do anything, then; the request seems to amount to asking you to proxy-arp the entire internet. Even if technically possible, there are all sorts of other issues (do you catch or forward DNS requests, for example; that occurs to me as the service which is most likely to suffer). Then you have to deal with laptops that are configured for use on private networks; you may be unable to get packets to their (mail,news,dns,exchange) server at all. Are you certain that the "powers that be" won't take "it's not technically feasable" as an answer? jan PS. You might try firing this question directly at the ipfilter lists too. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message