FYI -----Original Message----- From: Gary Flynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can sniffers act in remote networks?
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Bruno Negr�o wrote: > > Could someone tell me if sniffers can hear remote connections? > In my conception, sniffers just can hear the traffic where they > are directly connected. Is it right? A program that listens to packets on the wire can certainly only hear what is on the wire. However, active means can be used to flood switch tables, subvert ARP tables, subvert routing tables, and/or subvert DNS entries so that traffic that wouldn't normally be on that wire is suddenly sent there. In those scenarios, non-local traffic can be sniffed. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer - Technical Services James Madison University Please R.U.N.S.A.F.E. http://www.jmu.edu/computing/runsafe _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
