On 16-Dec-1999 Matthew Dalton wrote: > It means that that interface is receiving all packets on the network > segment. Useful for packet sniffers. It's a bad thing if a cracker has > initiated it. That is what I thought. Is there a way to keep a cracker from doing this?
thanks -- Andrew > > Pollywog wrote: >> >> Is it a bad thing for my machine's interfaces to be in promiscuous mode?