From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 9 7:57: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from drawbridge.ctc.com (drawbridge.ctc.com [147.160.99.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9851564E for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cameron@ctc.com) Received: by drawbridge.ctc.com; id KAA25070; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:55:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from server2.ctc.com(147.160.1.4) by drawbridge.ctc.com via smap (V2.0) id xma025046; Thu, 9 Sep 99 10:55:34 -0400 Received: from ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com (ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com [147.160.34.4]) by server2.ctc.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA23859; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:55:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:55:12 -0400 Message-ID: <0C0F7D2A7354D311B79100A0C9EA54E12F6F6F@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com> From: "Cameron, Frank" To: "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'Darren Reed'" Subject: RE: Lisen only NIC Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:55:06 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was reading an old article from AT&T Bell Labs that talked about cutting the transmit line and doing a few other things so a machine could listen but not speak. There Be Dragons: http://www.rootshell.org/docs/dragons_bellovin.ps.gz > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Reed [SMTP:avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au] > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:34 AM > To: Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se > Cc: newton@atdot.dotat.org; Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se; > freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Lisen only NIC > > Err, this can do bad things like make your hub/switch think your station > has dropped off the network and hence get 0 packets. > > In some mail from Lowkrantz, Goran, sie said: > > > > Yes! > > > > Cut the transmit pin on your patchlead. > > > > - mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message