[1653] in bugtraq
Re: sniffers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Horgan)
Mon May 1 14:26:52 1995
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 08:57:09 +0800
From: patrick@oes.amdahl.com (Patrick Horgan)
To: asriel@chewy.wookie.net, jenkins@dpw.com
Cc: root@ee.duth.gr, bugtraq@fc.net
>
> These are all good ideas, however many sniffers are not Unix systems that
> can be logged into and examined. I have worked with DOS based sniffers
> (Network General Sniffer, Excelan, HP, etc) that are far superior to suns
> (as sniffers/protocol analayzers) and I doubt that they are easily detectable
> even with their transmit lead intact.
I don't think the machine you run sniffer software on could make it better
or worse, they all get the same packets;)
Patrick
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