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

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Andrew

> 
> Pollywog wrote:
>> 
>> Is it a bad thing for my machine's interfaces to be in promiscuous mode?

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