Is promiscuous mode bad?
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sun Aug 15 15:32:07 PDT 2004
Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org> wrote:
> Reminder for bill: sniffing via bpf requires the same privileges whether
> promisc. is set or not, so you always need to be root for sniffing data
> of the line, that is when the permissions is not tampered with :).
> Thanks #bsddocs (simon ;))
Really? Then I stand corrected.
If that's the case, though, what _is_ the administrative danger of running
in PROMISC mode?
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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