From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 09:49:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0A516A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mymail.netmagicians.com (mymail.netmagicians.com [202.87.39.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6070043D45 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:49:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sid@netmagicsolutions.com) Received: (qmail 2929 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 10:03:38 -0000 Received: from sid@netmagicsolutions.com by netmagicsolutions.com by uid 504 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (uvscan: v4.3.20/v4100. Clear:. Processed in 0.845545 secs); 17 Aug 2004 10:03:38 -0000 Received: from intra.netmagicsolutions.com (HELO ?10.1.1.161?) (202.87.39.242) by mymail.netmagicians.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 10:03:37 -0000 Message-ID: <4121D48D.2080002@netmagicsolutions.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:19:01 +0530 From: Siddhartha Jain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is promiscuous mode bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:49:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 horio shoichi wrote: | On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:24:00 +0200 | Ruben de Groot 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. | Don't you have to be on the same broadcast domain to do a MAC ping? I mean how would you do a MAC ping over the internet? - -- Siddhartha Jain (CISSP) Consulting Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd Bombay - 400063 Phone: +91-22-26850001 Ext.128 Fax : +91-22-26850002 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBIdSMOGaxOP7knVwRAkUCAJ4m3u55mbVps9skAyr3OnMrMLxBBACffMDf blzs3L+y384dbZna0ZqCEwA= =dYSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----