On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:31:32PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > 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? most switches will, in the case of extreme amounts of use, revert to being a simple hub. i don't think it's the easiest thing to do, and it's sure to piss off your network administrator... sean
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