Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:50:10 -0800 From: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> To: DRHAGER@de.ibm.com Cc: fgont@softhome.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000101155009.A3821@tch.org> In-Reply-To: <C1256859.002914F4.00@d12mta01.de.ibm.com>; from DRHAGER@de.ibm.com on Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:28:42AM %2B0100 References: <C1256859.002914F4.00@d12mta01.de.ibm.com>
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Buy a switch.. They are cheap. And if your really paranoid you can use static arp entries on your servers/routers. On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:28:42AM +0100, DRHAGER@de.ibm.com wrote: > > > If you are a cracker, you try to take down the other system someway. > Duplicate MAC-adresses (the hardware adress of your device) or duplicate > IP adresses are very hard to determine - ar least in my expirience. > A big segment with PCs and a lot of curios and "skilled" users can be hell. > > And shooting them or cutting off fingers is considered as unprofessionel. > :-< > > If someone is root on his system, how do you stop him from reading pakets? > There is no way to tell a packet to avoid being read by tcpdump - or am I > confused? > > You can scan and search cards in promicuos mode, but this leads back to > shooting and cutting fingers. > Or you can buy cards which dont provide this feature - this exists for token > ring. > > Happy new year / prosperos ano nuevo > Orm > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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