Subject: Re: Detecting Sniffing?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ronald Khoo <ronald@cpm.COM.MY>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/1995 14:12:18
"Segmentation Violation.  Core dumped." <greywolf@lonewolf.ithaca.com> wrote:

> There is no way to detect that someone else's net IF is in promisc mode.

True, but you can protect against it:  just put all sensitive origin/end
stations onto their own ports on a switched ethernet hub.  Then no one
can sniff you from their own stations.

One helluva expensive solution though ...

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