Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:45:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: promiscuous but silent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108310843140.1412-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <20010813214553.A21348@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote: > I want to monitor the behavior of a firewall we're evaluating. I'd ... > in parallel with the firewall's input. But I want to be absolutely > sure the notebook stays quiet. That is, no ARP for its ownself when > bringing up the interface, nor responses to the network broadcast > address. Nada. "I know a guy" who cut the tx wires in a patch cable that he uses to connect his box to networks to be monitored. You can be sure there are no transmissions this way :). You might have link problems with some hubs/network cards and there are a vareity of ways to get around them depending on what the problems are... Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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