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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:01:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD 
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

=)Vincent Poy wrote in message ID
=)<Pine.BSF.3.95.970728173911.3844T-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>:
=)> 	It seems the interface always goes into promiscuous mode though.
=)
=)Err? Not on my systems it doesn't.

	It seems to happen on every machine including fresh installed
ones.

This is from dmesg:
ed1: promiscuous mode enabled
ed1: promiscuous mode enabled
ed1: promiscuous mode enabled

=)> 	Hmmm, if BPF isn't there, how will utils like trafshow work to
=)> track people down?
=)
=)Track what people down?

	Track people who ping icmp flood the machine since that's what
trafshow is for.

=)It's really a choice. You can run a secure shell server or you can run
=)a shell server which, if hacked, becomes a real threat. I've taken
=)certain liberties locally (bpf is still compiled in), but since the
=)machine is right behind me (literally), and carefully watched, I'm not
=)particularly worried right now.

	I watch the machines like 20 hours a day almost and no one even
knows I'm logged on when I'm using screen sessions.  and I never su unless
necessary.  


Cheers,
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