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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:22:35 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        philw@megasoft.tic.ab.ca (Phillip White)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ethernet packet sniffer.
Message-ID:  <199601180552.QAA05686@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117030452.14808A-100000@megasoft.tic.ab.ca> from "Phillip White" at Jan 17, 96 03:16:59 am

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Phillip White stands accused of saying:
> I've tried this and it does not show everything.  On Solaris I can 

Correctly configured (as I suggested), it will show _everything_, 
providing your machine is fast enough to keep up.

> actually watch the data being received from the news pull to INN, meaning 
> if I was fast enough (impossible) I could read the news as it comes 
> through the feed.  The same with people logging into our Livingston 
> portmaster, I can see that they are messing around with commands that 
> they have no access to cause I can see that they are attempting passwd 
> hacks cause I can see the passwds they are entering at the password: 
> prompt(normally not seen any other way) or that they are entering enable 
> commands etc that they have no right to access.  There is no watch 

Ah.  You still don't want an Ethernet sniffer, what you appear to want
is a protocol analyser.  Very different toy.  A couple of URL's were 
mentioned on this thread, which should get you off in the right direction.

> Phil...

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