On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:47:41PM -0500, sean finney wrote...... > heya, > > iirc promiscuous mode means to listen to all traffic on the network > as opposed to only traffic addressed to the mac address of your ethernet > card. this is real useful for passively sniffing packets on your > network when you don't want to / can't run it on one of the machines > in question. One question that I've been meaning to ask and this seems to be close to being on-topic: If you're running a sniffer in promiscuous mode on a network that is linked together via a switch (as opposed to a hub), will you still be able to passively capture all packets from all boxes on the net? Or is that one of the purposes of the switch - to ensure privacy? Is there any way around this? Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: kevin@rustybear.com GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941
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