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Re: packet sniffing help needed.
From: dallas jordan <dallas.jordan () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:58:25 -0500
In order to sniff traffic between the two victims, you'd have to have the sniffer on the same physical network. But if the network is switched, you'd need to be on the same physical segment. However, there are some sniffers that allow sniffing on a switched network using ARP spoofing and such. If you are trying to sniff between two victims over the internet, I dont believe that would be very feasible unless you could get the sniffer on some backbone line between the two victims. Over the internet, there's just too many paths the traffic can take between the two to reliably try sniffing. Does that make any sense? On 12/6/05, Mark Knowles <ghooti () googlemail com> wrote:
Hi all, I have been thinking about packet sniffing and packet capture - it is because of all of those alerts in IE - you know the ones - This page is not encrypted and a 3rd party might be listening. I have been doing some googling and not really found much, but then I am not too sure what I am looking for. This is the setup I want to explore. Comp1(victim1) = Windows xp box, Connected via dial up to a free ISP Comp2(attacker) = windows/*nix, connected via broadband to different ISP than comp1 Comp3(webserver/victim2) C1< ----- > C3 C2---¦ The image above is my attempt at ascii art - I suppose it represents the old style wiretap method. where C1 and C3 communicate unaware that their data is being listened to by C2. C2 has no power to modify the information. Is this sort of sniffing possible? or would it have to be more like C1 < --- > C2 < --- > C3 Which is how i see MITM attacks working. - I suppose this would be akin to having the telephone operator relay the message, or a language interpreter changing the message between clients. I am currently only looking for http data, although i am assuming that I will have to filter that after I have gotten it all. I do not want to mess with the data, I would just like to view it. Would this still count as a MITM attack? I know its all a bit Hollywood, but i am really curious to see what information i am transmitting (non https) - and what those warnings really mean, are they of the McDonald$ coffee "caution contents is hot" type thing? which i have to say is how i view them. I understand how proxies cache and transmit data - are the warnings just about them? Any advice/ideas/whacking with a lart/etc, greatly received :) Thanks, Mark.
-- Dallas Jordan CCNA, CISSP
Current thread:
- packet sniffing help needed. Mark Knowles (Dec 06)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. Dale Fay (Dec 07)
- RE: packet sniffing help needed. David Gillett (Dec 07)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. dallas jordan (Dec 07)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. Rodrigo Blanco (Dec 09)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. Mark Knowles (Dec 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: packet sniffing help needed. Beauford, Jason (Dec 07)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. yaoki (Dec 07)
- Re: packet sniffing help needed. ilaiy (Dec 07)