I am running some FreeBSD boxes as various network monitoring hosts. The hosts have multiple interfaces on them sniffing different network segments. The hosts have one management interface with an IP address assigned to the interface and the other ethernet interfaces do not have IP address assigned. I am wondering if there are any vulnerabilities with having one of these monitoring interfaces sit on a public network. Can the hosts be hacked at all on the monitoring interface without an IP address...If so, how?
Paul
