On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:43, Mike Fratto wrote: > Your assuming that the attacker 1) has control of the switch and 2) is > sniffing either the uplink or has configured the switch to mirror all the > switch ports or VLAN to the mirror port. > > Neither of which may be the case.
There are many people on this list who have more knowledge of this than I do, but having control of the switch isn't the only way to sniff a switched network. All you need is a way of spoofing ARP packets and you can intercept all the traffic you want. Here's one such set of tools - http://naughty.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/ Kenton _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
