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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:35:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jonas Eriksson <je@interact.se>
To:        dmp@aracnet.com
Cc:        The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net>, ks@itp.ac.ru, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Layer 2 ethernet encryption?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909081033330.97557-100000@wolfie.interact.se>
In-Reply-To: <37D61E69.58B806DF@aracnet.com>

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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 dmp@aracnet.com wrote:

> The Mad Scientist wrote:
> <snip>
> >         I do not claim to understand driver writing, but what about ripping out
> > the code that puts the NIC into promiscous mode?
> 
> I'm not a software hacker, so I couldn't tell you if that would work,
> but disabling that part of the driver might not be such a good idea.
> 

There is some cards on the market that you can't set to
promisc mode.

Maybe someone on the list has more information about this? 


 -- Jonas Eriksson



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