Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad

[mnikhil m]

I think it s also called trunk port right ?


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:01:06 +0000, Neil Davies
<neil.davies44 at orange.net> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Matthew Miller
> Sent: 23 November 2004 19:55
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad
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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:47:05PM -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote:
> > >down the gauntlet for me to get his password. He telnets into his
> > >home machine from work and I want to capture that, so what I am
> > >looking for is something that can be run from my machine, listen to
> > >his here at work and capture his home password without knowing
> > >explicitly the address of
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> > Ethereal can capture that just fine in promisc mode...
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> But, if it's a switched network, you'll need to actually be somewhere in the
> path his packets are travelling. (Or somehow convince the switch to send all
> packets your direction, which may not be trivial.)
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> This is called a SNAP port, so if your switch doesn't support them, then
> they won't work.
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> -Neil
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