[K12OSN] Tuning LTSP Performance

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 21:15:26 UTC 2008


Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:
> >>
>> Cool that's a good idea. But in any case, even without managed
>> switches, if everyone all of sudden loses their X sessions what's the
>> point of sniffing?
>>   
> 
> Sniffing's a different discussion.  ARP spoofing's more of a 
> man-in-the-middle and/or denial-of-service attack.
> 

There are variations where you spoof a MAC address to the switch so it 
sends you some packets intended for a different port, but TCP retries 
will soon send another copy that keep the original destination from 
noticing that anything is wrong.

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   Les Mikesell
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