I believe you are correct. I misunderstood. Although I've connected a laptop to a monitor (span) port before without using the inpkts command, and I was able to use the laptop on the network as well as hear any traffic from the other port(s).
Mike W. Patrick Ramsey wrote: > > I'm not totally positive because I have never used the inpkts > switch on a monitor command...but I think he might have been > referring to the sniffer being able to send packets out... (say > you are using a sniffer, not in promiscuous mode, and you want > to be able to do reverse lookups on ip addresses sniffed) good > theory? :) Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=34618&t=34469 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]