Subject: Re: a remote user can check promiscuous mode
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/10/1999 07:52:11
At 12:31 AM 12/10/99 , Noriyuki Soda wrote:
>http://www.l0pht.com/antisniff/tech-paper.html claims that a remote user
>can examine that whether a interface of NetBSD machine is promiscuous
>mode or not.
>
>Is this bug?
It is a bug. The Ethernet drivers that exhibit such behavior should
be fixed.
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