Dear Friends: After John requested some help for his smoothwall project and considering that his recommendation for software solutions is always respected, I decided to give it a shot.
I have had a Slackware box with 100MHz running as a IPMasq machine for a quite a while. As I write I just thought about checking the uptime but too late. It is gone! Anyhow, my newly installed Smoothwall Box seems to be doing a great job. I will not even have to setup the DNS Caching server because thankfully it has one. I remmember I spent days to setup DNS and I never quite understood the process. Anyway my question is why is the Internet interface card in Promiscuous mode? For what I have read in the past in Maximum Linux Security this mode is to scan all packets into the card. Why is this necessary? I also remember reading that it is possible for a network administrator to detect when a card is in this mode. Would I be in trouble with Cox if they catch me with a card in this mode? Thanks, Alvaro Zuniga
