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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 96 20:38:38 MET
From:      marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ethernet packet sniffer.
Message-ID:  <9601181938.AA23886@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960118103037.1500A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu>; from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 18, 96 10:34 am

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> Mike, I'm not saying it would be practical, but if her networking 
> department happens to have a Time Domain Reflectometer, which is common 
> communications equipment for high speed cables (many cable companies have 
> one) then every tap can be detected.  A TDR would spot everything, even 
> unused BNC taps.

So would a Frequency Domain Reflectometer.

Which reminds me: we built one of those for some 20 USD worth of parts
(and 5k USD worth of HP signal analyzer, but we had that lying on the
bench already; talking about cheap hack :)

/Alby



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