Subject: Re: Detecting Sniffing?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ronald Khoo <ronald@cpm.COM.MY>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/1995 14:12:18
"Segmentation Violation. Core dumped." <greywolf@lonewolf.ithaca.com> wrote:
> There is no way to detect that someone else's net IF is in promisc mode.
True, but you can protect against it: just put all sensitive origin/end
stations onto their own ports on a switched ethernet hub. Then no one
can sniff you from their own stations.
One helluva expensive solution though ...
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