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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:53:34 -0800
From:      Landon Stewart <landons@uniserve.com>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unusual  log in var/log/messages 
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011115135330.02d6fcf8@pop.uniserve.com>

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Actually, isn't this typical behaviour of a host with a NIC in promiscuous 
mode?  Someone could be running a sniffer on 00:40:33:39:80:d1 and it 
responded to a ping that was sent to 137.226.141.33.

Is this probable?


At 10:41 PM 11/15/2001 +0100, Sven Wittig wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently discovered this entry in my messages-logfile
>
>" Nov 14 15:10:44 leo2 /kernel: arp: 137.226.141.33 moved from 
>00:40:33:39:80:d1 to 00:50:bf:7e:6e:70 on de0"
>
>is this a kind of attack or what?
>
>Cu


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