Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:11:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: DRHAGER@de.ibm.com, Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sniffing networks Message-ID: <387242B9.3F54BC7E@elischer.org> References: <C125685C.002D7B4D.00@d12mta01.de.ibm.com> <38721113.FBC3B90E@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> DRHAGER@de.ibm.com wrote:
> >
> > OK: How do you perform a search for cards in promiscuous mode?
> > (Taking some expensive analyzer progs or some simple stuff under UN*X,
> > Linsux or NT?)
>
> Why would you want to search for network interfaces in promiscuous mode?
> Stick the users on switched ports so they can't sniff other users packets
> and be done with it
the way to do this is to send ping packets to each IP address but with
the wrong MAC address. If they respond they were in promiscuous mode..
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