Re: One NIC on public side

["mike () grounded net" <mike () grounded net>]

On Wed, 12 May 2010 23:37:05 -0500, Terry Martin wrote:
>  Depending on the OS. You may need to aet the port you are monitoring
>  into permiscuous mode. Some do not auto configure

In the case of which I'm posting, it would be a win XP machine used only for monitoring now and then.
I thought that when wireshark fires up that it puts the interface in promiscuous mode on it's own?
 
>  I am not sure how secure it will be,  it depends on the firewall. You
>  still have a Mac address that can be attack

Can a MAC address be attacked over the Internet?

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