Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:00:43 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Landon Stewart <landons@uniserve.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unusual log in var/log/messages Message-ID: <20011115160043.W13393@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011115135330.02d6fcf8@pop.uniserve.com>; from landons@uniserve.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:53:34PM -0800 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011115135330.02d6fcf8@pop.uniserve.com>
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* Landon Stewart <landons@uniserve.com> [011115 15:53] wrote: > Actually, isn't this typical behaviour of a host with a NIC in promiscuous > mode? Someone could be running a sniffer on 00:40:33:39:80:d1 and it > responded to a ping that was sent to 137.226.141.33. > > Is this probable? Only if the sniffer is really stupid. A sniffer is a data sink, it should not be replying unless it's not a sniffer. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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