[plug] Network Analysing

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Jan 2 15:24:13 WST 2003


On Thursday 02 January 2003 02:58 pm, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> That won't work.... They *all* have to go thru the hub.
> A switch will only send the packets to the card with the mac address
> aluded to in the packet.

Fine point to make, if monitoring machine is in promiscuous mode it will see 
all packets destined for all machines attached to the *hub*. Which is why I 
suggested putting the hub in line with the gateway.

Cheers; Leon



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