Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:34:09 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Nicole H." <nicole@mediacity.com> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>, "[Mario1-]" <mario1@primenet.com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Tomasz Dudziak <loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl> Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <6954.870136449@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:22:24 -0800." <Chameleon.870081818.nmh@geekgirl>
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"Nicole H." wrote in message ID <Chameleon.870081818.nmh@geekgirl>: > Does anyone know of a good way to detect people "sniffing" on the > network? IE a program that will detect a machine running in > promiscuous mode? There is no way to detect that from outside the machine ... after all, its just listening to all the packets that go past. FreeBSD 2.2 and later log a message to console when an interface goes into promiscuous mode. The *REAL* answer is to remove BPF from all machines, and make sure they stay removed. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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