Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 01:21, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> Switches only switch while all the MAC addresses fit in their MAC->port
> mapping table. If that fills some switches fall back to "hub" mode,
> and braodcast all traffic to all ports. You can force this by flooding
> your own port with random MACs I think, to blow out the table.

Which is what ettercap is very good at doing for you. 

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