From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 9 7:51:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.infologigruppen.se (ns2.infologigruppen.se [212.214.163.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35409153F1 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns2.infologigruppen.se (8.9.2/8.8.8) id QAA05876; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:48:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se) Received: from valhall.ign.se(192.168.3.1) via SMTP by bifrost-net.ign.se, id smtpdTU5874; Thu Sep 9 16:48:46 1999 Received: by valhall.ign.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:48:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Lowkrantz, Goran" To: "'Reinier Bezuidenhout'" , avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au Cc: "Lowkrantz, Goran" , newton@atdot.dotat.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Lisen only NIC Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:48:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Couldn't this work if this NIC with the no-TX cable was using the same IP address as another, active computer on the same segment? GLZ -----Original Message----- From: Reinier Bezuidenhout [mailto:rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 4:47 PM To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au Cc: Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se; newton@atdot.dotat.org; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lisen only NIC > Err, this can do bad things like make your hub/switch think your station > has dropped off the network and hence get 0 packets. Yep ... this is true ... we've tried it before and failed :) The other thing todo is to try and remove the transmit code from the card driver :) Reinier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message