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Re: Network sniffing on the wire - managed switches


From: ArcSighter Elite <arcsighter () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:54:46 -0500

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Tom Yarrish wrote:
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


Man in the Middle: ARP/DNS/CACHE poisoning...
And yes, IMHO was a newbie question.

Sincerely.

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