> On top of that, ettercap is designed for man in the middle attacks,
> disabling kernel forwarding seems to be a must.
Agreed, with one caveat: ettercap *is* capable of mounting a MTM
attack by ARP poisoning, which works fine on a non-router host, in
which case forwarding wouldn't be enabled in the first place.
In any case, it would be nice if ettercap would warn before disabling
packet forwarding, and also by default restore the forwarding setting
upon exit. Doing so would avoid the awkward situation that engendered
this bug report.
For this reason, I'm going to change the severity here to wishlist,
rather than closing the issue.
--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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