From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 21:56:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA17247 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17081 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA05686; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:22:37 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180552.QAA05686@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ethernet packet sniffer. To: philw@megasoft.tic.ab.ca (Phillip White) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:22:35 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Phillip White" at Jan 17, 96 03:16:59 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[