There ARE ways to detect sniffing, but not necessarily completely reliable. Sniffing places the network device into promiscous (SP?) mode. The old l0pht had a antisniff which @Stake still offers. Other tools may exist as well which detect sniffing.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:19:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As sniffing is a passive act, there is no way > that you can detect the act itself, unless you > have access to the machine that's doing the > possible sniffing itself. > > Perhaps one of the simplest ways to ensure > sniffing is made much more difficult at the > least is by switching from a hub type network > to a switched network. In a switched > environment, other users cannot see each others > network streams, thus providing a layer of > protection. > > Of course, like all techniques, this can be > gotten around by various additional techniques, > but it does make life more difficult to would > be sniffers. (ie: user installs a hub via an > uplink port to switched segment, and connects > target's system and a sniffing machine to the > hub.) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A Solution for sniffing > > > > Hello Folks, > I think i am being sniffed by somone on my > network, and i was wondering. is > there an application to check wether i am being > sniffed or not, and if i > was, how can i fix that ?(like PGP for mail, > what about other protocols) > > P.S. : Running Linux Slackware 8.1 (if that > would help) > > cheers, > Fadi R. Khouja >
