From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 5 17:19:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CED815519 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:19:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id RAA24038; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:15:28 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA10908; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:15:28 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id RAA16848; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:14:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3873ED66.A1D650FD@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:18:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Omachonu Ogali Cc: DRHAGER@de.ibm.com, Olaf Hoyer , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sniffing networks References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Omachonu Ogali wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Why would you want to search for network interfaces in promiscuous mode? > > Stick the users on switched ports so they can't sniff other users packets > > and be done with it. > > That doesn't always work. Our 3Com CoreBuilder starts handing out > packets to every port on the switch during a severe flood, we've > pointed this problem out to 3Com and are awaiting a fix, but I > just wanted to let you know that a switched network doesn't > always help. OK, let me rephrase: "Stick the users on a GOOD switch..." ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message