Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] One NIC on public side

["mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?