Thanks and I am glad to know. I will just leave it like that for now.
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:30 pm, Shannon Roddy wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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