Is promiscuous mode bad?

[Siddhartha Jain]

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horio shoichi wrote:

| On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:24:00 +0200
| Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:
|
|>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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| Ping it with wrong mac.
|

Don't you have to be on the same broadcast domain to do a MAC ping? I
mean how would you do a MAC ping over the internet?


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