Re: How to sniff packets from afar?

From: Dug Song (dugsongat_private)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 15:25:23 PST

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    On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:40:00PM -0500, ET LoWNOISE wrote:
    
    > You dont need to own the router, you can use your pc to become a
    > routerthen spoof the routing protocols used to reroute the traffic
    > to you and then sniffit.
    
    besides route hijacking (oy), there's also RMON, which was designed
    ages ago for exactly this purpose. that is, if you're lucky enough to
    find an open device that supports the filter and capture groups, and
    can tolerate potentially lossy sniffing:
    
    	http://www.csu.edu.au/special/auugwww96/proceedings/wang/wang.html
    
    perhaps Robert Graham would like to chime in here? :-)
    
    -d.
    
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