From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 20:28:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4920916A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:28:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBCD43D1F for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:28:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from d137-186-239-215.abhsia.telus.net ([137.186.239.215]) by priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.netESMTP <20040815202854.WGUU29532.priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net@d137-186-239-215.abhsia.telus.net> for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:28:54 -0600 From: Aaron Dalton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:29:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408151429.05110.aaron@daltons.ca> Subject: Is promiscuous mode bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:28:56 -0000 I was running security/rkhunter and it warns me about my network card being in promiscuous mode. I have a few questions: 1) What exactly is promiscuous mode? (I've done some googling but haven't found anything really clear) 2) Why might it be considered a bad thing? 3) How do I disable it if it really is bad? 4) What are the effects of disabling it? Thank you *so much* for your time! -- Aaron Dalton http://aaron.daltons.ca