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Date:      Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
To:        John Conover <conover@rahul.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Security risk associated with a NIC's promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <20051007113918.B95280@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051007084807.13455.qmail@rahul.net>
References:  <20051007084807.13455.qmail@rahul.net>

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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, John Conover wrote:

>
> Is there any security risk associated with a NIC's promiscuous mode

IF you're on a switched LAN, you'll only see traffic destined for MACs 
that the switched has learned on your port (your NICs), plus 
multi/broadcast.

Unless you configure switch "mirroring" or trunking.

~BAS

> while running tcpdump and/or arpwatch?
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      John
>
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