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Re: sniffer/promisc detector

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Jan 16 18:06:59 2004

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:00:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40086A95.8D2DB487@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


if you have multiple network interfaces you can insure that 
the one doing the snooping is undetectable by the tools that people wrote 
to detect promiscious ethernets...

joelja

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

> 
> Gerald wrote:
> > 
> > Subject says it all. Someone asked the other day here for sniffers. Any
> > progress or suggestions for programs that detect cards in promisc mode or
> > sniffing traffic?
> 
> I can't even imagine how one might do that.  Traditionally the only
> way to know that you have a mole is to encounter secrets that "had to"
> have been stolen.
> 

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