Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:59:59 +0900 From: horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is promiscuous mode bad? Message-ID: <20040816.210800.551fee0ee7277bf1.10.0.3.12@bugsgrief.net> In-Reply-To: <20040816122400.GA81160@ei.bzerk.org> References: <200408151429.05110.aaron@daltons.ca> <20040815170806.45fcb779.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408151603.26022.aaron@daltons.ca> <411FE2E9.1090704@elvandar.org> <20040815183205.66b753cd.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <688492D4-EF2F-11D8-9CD1-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> <20040816122400.GA81160@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:24:00 +0200 Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 07:53:10PM -0700, Kevin Stevens typed: > > > > A lot of network scanners also trigger on NICS in promiscuous mode > > (there's a way to detect them, I forget the details at the moment) > > because admins want to know if any hosts are out there sniffing. > > How sure are you about that? AFAIK there's no way to detect a NIC in > promiscuous mode *from the outside*. I would be very interested in a network > scanner that could. > > Ruben > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Ping it with wrong mac. horio shoichi
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