Alvaro Zuniga wrote: >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? >
I do not believe that Cox has any way of detecting that your card is in promiscuous mode. Shannon > >Thanks, > >Alvaro Zuniga > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
