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Re: sniffers


From: "Michel Pereira" <michel () michel eti br>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:50:29 -0300

   At first you tried to see if you have network problems like
colision, packet droped, crc error? Before the tests you can enable
ntop onto your network and see what is the heaviest type of traffic
you're dealing.

Bye

On 2/28/06, Harrison Holland <harrisonholland () gmail com> wrote:
Ethereal is a very useful tool for getting a grasp on your network,
however the most important part is (as you said) to understand what
you are looking for.  I'd recommend a great introduction to packet
forensics which can be found here:

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1845

Definitely a good read.

Harrison

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