RE: promiscuous mode

From: Ralph Huntington (rjh@mohawk.net)
Date: 12/10/01 

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:17:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
To: Sander van Dinten <sander@joek.dnsq.org>

No, there is no network sniffer running on that box (or any other on the
local network-- at least that I know of, and I should know). How can I
determine if someone has slipped on in?

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Sander van Dinten wrote:

> Are you using some kind of an network sniffer?
>
> Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network
> packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your
> IP-address).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Ralph
> Huntington
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:04 PM
> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: promiscuous mode
>
> I recently found these log entries:
>
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:45:35 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> enabled
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:46:31 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> disabled
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:47:53 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> enabled
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> disabled
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:51:00 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> enabled
> messages.2:Dec 6 13:55:42 mohawk /kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode
> disabled
>
> Can someone tell me how this mode might be enabled/disabled? We have
> very
> few shell users on this machine and I didn't think any of them would
> know
> anything about promiscuous mode. Turns out I know little about it
> myself.
>
> Any pointers to relevant docs and/or some idea of what this might be
> about
> would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance. - Ralph
>
>
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