Network sniffing on the wire - managed switches

[Tom Yarrish <tom () yarrish com>]

Hey all,
This may come off as somewhat of a newbie question, but it's one I've  
been curious about.

When you are doing any sort of pen testing or sniffing on the wire,  
how do you handle a managed switch scenario.  If you're connected to a  
switch on one port, how can you monitor the traffic on the the other  
ports if you're not in a monitor mode?  I've never understood how you  
can sniff traffic other than the traffic from your machine to a  
destination.

Thanks ahead of time,
Tom