[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
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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