| Red Squirrel - Feb-13-2005 server time |
| Well it's not as easy as you think. You basically need to try and trick the switch into thinking it's a hub. Never done it but I know it has to do with flooding it with a bunch of arp packets and such. But on a typical college/school network I'm sure there's security in place to avoid this, such as filtering of these packets and what not. |
| anonymous - Feb-13-2005 server time |
| I think the author of this article totally forgot to mention how EASY it is to sniff all clients data on SWITCHED networks (on the same network segment of course). Take a look at tools like dniff and ettercap. |
| Kestrel - Jan-24-2005 server time |
| I second Packetyzer by Network Chemistry. It does a fantastic job of decoding a myriad of protocols, much better than ethereal itself. It actually sits on top of ethereal and the winpcap driver. It also has better support for inspecting wireless networks. |
| char - Jan-23-2005 server time |
| my favourites in this relationship: www.packetyzer.com ettercap.sf.net |
| Red Squirrel - Jan-22-2005 server time |
| http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php/packetsniffers/1/ Packet sniffers, tools used to record network activity, are often controversial. In this article we look at why this is the case, and also look at positive uses for packet sniffers. |