Most other Unix systems, such as Irix, Solaris, SCO, etc, do not have any flags indication whether they are in promiscuous mode or not, therefore an intruder could be sniffing your whole network and there is no way to detect it. Often a sniffer log becomes so large that the file space is all used up. On a high volume network, a sniffer will create a large load on the machine. These sometimes trigger enough alarms that the administrator will discover a sniffer. There is no commands I know of to detect a promiscuous IBM PC compatible machine, but they atleast usually do not allow command execution unless from the console, therefore remote intruders can not turn a PC machine into a sniffer without inside assistance.
Active hubs send to each system only packets intended for it rendering promiscuous sniffing useless.
Kerberos Kerberos is another package that encrypts account information going over the network. Some of its draw backs are that all the account information is held on one host and if that machine is compromised, the whole network is vulnerable. It is has been reported a major difficulty to set up. It does not stop an intruder from capturing what you did after you logged in. You take the challenge information and password and plug it into an algorithm which generates the response that should get the same answer if the password is the same on the both sides.