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RE: discovering network layout at layer2
From: "Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ]" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway technolabs net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:07:38 +0530
-----Original Message----- From: Devrat Mittal [mailto:u02113 () cs unipune ernet in] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 5:49 PM To: ald2003 () users sourceforge net Subject: RE: discovering network layout at layer2 On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] wrote: hi aditya, well what i mean is apart from sniffing on my external interface to see what are the link layer protocol packets (Cisco DIscovery protocol) etc, I also need to actively determine the exact configuration of the switches - how many & what all hosts connected to my nearest switch & the same
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 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 -aditya
about the second & third level switch until out router is reached. Thats what I am looking at. regards Devrat Mittalhi there as far as i know this sort of things require apermission from some one inchage!thaT said, the best tool for this job would be etherreal -correct me if i am wrong, guys-aditya-----Original Message----- From: Dev [mailto:u02113 () cs unipune ernet in] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:57 PM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: discovering network layout at layer2 Hello ppl, I am new to this list. Plz redirect me to another list if this is not the appropriate list to post to this query. Having read the phrack article "Fun with the spanning tree protocol", I was wondering as to how i could use some layer2 protocols to my advantage to discover the network layout of my campus network (at layer 2). Additionally, all equipment is CISCO. Identification of my nearest switch is easily done by sniffing for STP BPDU packets & i did receive the STP hello BPDU packets on the user port that our gateway was connected to. This kind of packet gives me the following information: 1) How many more STP -capable devices are there up to the root bridge (root path cost) 2) The bridge & port ID & the root bridge & port ID. Can somebody suggest how can i find out my network topology using this STP protocol or some other layer2 protocol (CDP?? etc). regards, Devrat Mittal u02113 () cs unipune ernet in Department of computer Science University of Pune Pune. ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com)-- Devrat Mittal M.tech 2nd year Roll no. 2002301
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Current thread:
- discovering network layout at layer2 Dev (Feb 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: discovering network layout at layer2 Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Feb 11)
- Re: discovering network layout at layer2 Harry de Grote (Feb 12)
- RE: discovering network layout at layer2 Rob Shein (Feb 12)
- RE: discovering network layout at layer2 Brian_Peterson (Feb 12)
- RE: discovering network layout at layer2 Dave Killion (Feb 13)