Re: discovering network layout at layer2

[Harry de Grote <harry () cc kuleuven ac be>]

Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] wrote:

> for this you need :
>
> 1. admin / root access on your machine to see all the traffic that is going through the wire 
> 2. if you are connected using a hub with a ethernet lan card then all you need is to put your network card in promisc mode
> 3. if you are using switches then you have do create a braodcast storm to degrade the switch to act as a hub

arp poisining is less "brute force", but only gives information of 
traffic between 2 hosts

> 4. if you are connected using a modem / isdn card then you need a tcp scanner - there are many ones one the net - this 
> will not work for sniffing traffic but you will get a pretty good idea about the hosts around you

arp requests for the whole subnet? ;)

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