francis @
avalle .
insoft .
com (John [Francis] Stracke) writes:
#
# >> ifconfig le0 on a sun will let you know if the device is in promiscious
# >> mode. cert also has a program that will let you know if the interface is in
# >> promiscious mode. this only works on suns (which is where most sniffing
# >> is being done). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#
# Um. If you can't trust ifconfig, how can you trust a binary you got
# from CERT? If you can get the source from CERT, then you can port it
# very quickly to other platforms; I've found that this stuff is fairly
# uniform. (StudlyVendors who muck around with the semantics of Unix
# internals don't bother much with the network-interface subsystem,
# apparently because it's not frequently used enough to impress anyone.
# ;-)
Who said anything about getting a binary from CERT? As far as I know,
CERT doesn't distribute binaries for anything; everything they have is
source-only.
-Brent
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