[CLUE-Tech] Suse 9.1pro and chkrootkit

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue Jul 27 14:02:26 MDT 2004


Timothy Klein wrote:
[...]
> DHCPD has to put the network card in promiscus mode to listen 
> to everything on the wire.

Does it have to?  Or is that just the way it works?  I would think that 
broadcast packets would be delivered even without promiscuous mode (but 
there may well be brain damaged NICs out there that this works around).

Dave




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