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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:21:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      Troy Corbin <troyc@titan.communitech.net>
To:        Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
Cc:        Sander van Dinten <sander@joek.dnsq.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: promiscuous mode
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112101121060.29059-100000@titan.communitech.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011210121632.D59192-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>

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maybe one of your shell users ran tcpdump?

-t

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Ralph Huntington wrote:

> No, there is no network sniffer running on that box (or any other on the
> local network-- at least that I know of, and I should know). How can I
> determine if someone has slipped on in?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Sander van Dinten wrote:
> 
> > Are you using some kind of an network sniffer?
> >
> > Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network
> > packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your
> > IP-address).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Ralph
> > Huntington
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:04 PM
> > To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: promiscuous mode
> >
> > I recently found these log entries:
> >
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:45:35 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > enabled
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:46:31 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > disabled
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:47:53 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > enabled
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > disabled
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > enabled
> > messages.2:Dec  6 13:55:42 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> > disabled
> >
> > Can someone tell me how this mode might be enabled/disabled? We have
> > very
> > few shell users on this machine and I didn't think any of them would
> > know
> > anything about promiscuous mode. Turns out I know little about it
> > myself.
> >
> > Any pointers to relevant docs and/or some idea of what this might be
> > about
> > would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.	- Ralph
> >
> >
> >
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