From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 31 7:45: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B530937B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746093BF139 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:45:02 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7VEj1H00705; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:45:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:45:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: promiscuous but silent In-Reply-To: <20010813214553.A21348@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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