On Monday 29 September 2003 22:09, Holden Hao wrote: > Would promiscuous mode matter on a switch? Except of course it may > indicate that a hacker tried to sniff packets hoping that you are on a > hub.
right. it'd be an indication that you might have been rooted. i don't really know much about sniffing on switches. i've followed discussions that went into arp cache poisoning and such. i've seen some claims that switches don't buy you much and that there are still esoteric ways to sniff even on switched networks. but i never really understood the details. maybe fooler will chime in. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
