Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad
Frank Pineau
frank at pineaus.com
Tue Nov 23 20:28:00 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 15:06 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> >>Ethereal can capture that just fine in promisc mode...
> >
> >
> > But, if it's a switched network, you'll need to actually be somewhere in the
> > path his packets are travelling.
> >
>
> not unless you have access to the switch and issue a spanning-tree
> session.. Then you can monitor ANY port on that switch.
If you can't port-mirror (span tree, SNAP, etc), simply putting a hub
inline (say, off the inside interface of your firewall...) and plugging
your sniffer into that hub would work nicely.
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Be big. Be meaty. Be Frank.
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