Firewalls: Re: prevalence of sniffing ?

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Subject:	Re: prevalence of sniffing ?
From:	padgett @ tccslr . dnet . mmc . com (A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security)
Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 94 07:37:38 -0400
To:	"steven @ acpub . duke . edu"@UVS1.dnet.mmc.com
Cc:	"firewalls @ GreatCircle . com"@UVS1.dnet.mmc.com

>Of course, you also need to watch out for a trojaned or altered version of
>ifconfig which has been doctored to not print out the word "promiscuous".

This assumes that the sniffer is a recognized machine. For someone with
physical access to the net, all it takes is a PC, a NIC, and DOS software 
such as GOBBLER. No IP address necessary. 
						Warmly,
							Padgett

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