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

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From: "mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 23:18:09 -0500
The server I'm using wireshark on has two NICs.
I put NIC0 on the LAN side which is how I remotely manage the server.
I put NIC1 on a hub just before the firewall so that I can see all public traffic before it hits the firewall.

On NIC1, I do not have any IP assigned which is on my lan but have 169.254.1.2 on it.
 From what I understand, the NIC goes into promiscuous mode when wireshark and other network monitoring software fires up to use that NIC.

What I wondered about was, just now safe is it to have that NIC on the public side?

Thanks.