From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 03:04:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0515116A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 03:04:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E31743D49 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 03:04:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3355B5D16; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00465-06; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6912E5CAF; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4282C7AA.6070508@mac.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:10 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Valencia References: <20050512023052.27331.qmail@web53901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050512023052.27331.qmail@web53901.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sending MAC packets --- again X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 03:04:20 -0000 Daniel Valencia wrote: > About my previous message, I think that the problem is > that i'm using a switch, where I thought I had a > hub... If I'm sending ethernet broadcast packets... > will they be forwarded to all the ports of a switch?? Broadcast packets will go to all the ports on a switch. They'd have to, or else ARP and IP conflict detection wouldn't work. Nevertheless, your packet capturing experience will be happier if you use a hub, or else configure the switches' "monitor port" to be the port the sniffing box is listening on, assuming your switch supports this capability. -- -Chuck