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 > > -- > > John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > l8* -lava x.25 - minix - bitnet - plan9 - 110 bps - ASR 33 - base8
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