Is promiscuous mode bad?

[horio shoichi]

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.


horio shoichi