�Hola!

>       I have seen a program which can detect the machines running
> tcpdump or any other sniffer (to be exact, having an interface in the
> promiscuous mode). The program did this by sending a special packet for
> every machine on the local network. The packet was the normal ARP query
> except that it has some non-broadcast address instead of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> in the destination HW address field. The Linux box in promiscuous mode
> can see this query and sends an ARP reply.

>       Can the Linux ARP be modified to not replying to non-broadcast
> ARP packets?
Yes, but remember it isn't the only way to tell your box is in promisc mode.

> -Yenya
> --
> \ Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at fi.muni.cz>       http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/

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