Re: Caching a sniffer

[Fernando Gont <fernando () gont com ar>]

At 23:39 20/03/2004 +1100, ksaenz () spinaweb com au wrote:

> If you have a decent network switch in your environment
> you can disable all it's port to allow promiscuous mode
> across the network.

Promiscous mode is something network-interface specific.
An attacker could use arp poisoning to fool your switch.



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Fernando Gont
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