[61957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some very strange network behaviors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Thu Sep 11 09:21:02 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:20:22 -0600
From: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000a01c3781e$aeac5f30$18bd2c0c@Chris>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Christopher Bird wrote:
> This seems strange to me since they are arriving at an IP address that
> is different from mine.
That's the function of a hub, and the reason why you don't ever want to
send out sensitive information in plaintext. Your neighbor in the next
room over could run a packet sniffer and capture your logins.
