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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:32:05 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?
Message-ID:  <20040815183205.66b753cd.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <411FE2E9.1090704@elvandar.org>
References:  <200408151429.05110.aaron@daltons.ca> <20040815170806.45fcb779.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408151603.26022.aaron@daltons.ca> <411FE2E9.1090704@elvandar.org>

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Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote:

> Reminder for bill: sniffing via bpf requires the same privileges whether 
> promisc. is set or not, so you always need to be root for sniffing data 
> of the line, that is when the permissions is not tampered with :). 
> Thanks #bsddocs (simon ;))

Really?  Then I stand corrected.

If that's the case, though, what _is_ the administrative danger of running
in PROMISC mode?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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