From: Harry de Grote (harry@cc.kuleuven.ac.be)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 03:32:59 EST
Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] wrote:
> 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
arp poisining is less "brute force", but only gives information of
traffic between 2 hosts
> 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
arp requests for the whole subnet? ;)
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