Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970414091121.4685B-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199704140941.LAA14770@www.warp.co.uk>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Anthony Barlow wrote: > Apr 13 15:06:43 temp1 /kernal: ed0: promiscuous mode enabled > > What does it mean? > > temp1 is our test bed that I'm using to play around with to get used > to FreeBSD > > Regards, > Anthony It means that someone has enabled your ethernet interface for network packet sniffing. This has its legitimate uses, but you should discover who was doing this. Promiscuous mode _requires_ root privliges by default. It can be used by crackers/hackers to grab passwords floating around on a local ethernet. For more info see the bpf(4) and tcpdump(1) man pages. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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