From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 15 14: 0:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A784037B416 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id AE47881D01; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:00:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:00:43 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Landon Stewart Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unusual log in var/log/messages Message-ID: <20011115160043.W13393@elvis.mu.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011115135330.02d6fcf8@pop.uniserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Landon Stewart [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