Unless the network is lying to me again, Ronneil Camara said:
> Root access to sniff packets? I totally disagree! I am running ethereal as a
> normal user and I can grab packets from our LAN. I even tried changing my ip
> subnet but still, I was able to sniff packets. :-)
I hate to say this, but yes, on all respectable operating systems that are
configured correctly, you need root access to use promiscuous mode on the
ethernet interfaces (which is what is required to sniff).
I'd have a strong talk with my system administrator if I found out otherwise.
AlanC {who has been known to chmod 777 /dev/bpf0 on machines that I own,
have physical posession of, and who's OS I trust implicitly}
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