Francois Labreque wrote:
> Be sure to put a cross-over cable between the hub and the switch!
>
> This being said, unless Andrew doesn't care about his job, I wouldn't
> recommend playing around with the network like that.
>
> Problem 1: Both the switch and router are probably set to full duplex.
> If the sniffer or hub sends packets, it may cause collisions that
> would look very suspicious on a full duplex link (I'm assuming that one
> of the reasons to go to Cisco hardware 2 years ago was for remote
> management)
>
IIRC it is possible to sniff invisibly (not a pun). Somewhere at home I
have the Snort Cookbook and I'm sure it has a description of how to do
it. I'll post here if I ever find it amongst the couple of thousand
books we have at home.
John
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"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei
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