Is promiscuous mode bad?

[Bill Moran]

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
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