Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:24:00 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Kevin Stevens <freebsd@pursued-with.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is promiscuous mode bad? Message-ID: <20040816122400.GA81160@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <688492D4-EF2F-11D8-9CD1-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> 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>
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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
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