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Subject: Re: How protect against sniffers?
From: Gary Hull <ggh14854 @ ussun2f . glaxo . com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:33:10 -0500 (EST)
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . SUN . 3 . 91-heb-2 . 05 . 951028231648 . 11231A-100000 @ actcom . co . il>
Reply-to: ggh14854 @ ussun2f . glaxo . com (Gary Hull)

On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Daniel Guy wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Rick Owens wrote:
> 
> > At 07:17 PM 10/28/95 +0200, Daniel Guy wrote:

> > PMI (pardon my ignorance) - how does one scan a net to find out if someone
> > is using promiscous mode to listen?  (If the answer is long, just give me a
> > pointer to it, since this is more-or-less tangential to firewalls.)  Thanks!
> 
> There's a program called ifsatus out there that does just that, it's 
> probably avaliable from any good ftp site dealing with security thou i 
> know it can be found at Saic for sure, hope this helps..
> 
Another tool used for detecting promiscuous mode is cpm.  It is 
available fro most security anon ftp's (NASIRC -nasa only, CERT and
SAIC have it for sure.  I believe COAST has it as well.
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