[ale] MicroCenter in Duluth

[Matt Smith]

>I purchased a generic netgear switch and want to sniff.
>If I use a crossover cable and fool the switch in
>thinking I'm a hub will it send me all the packets?

No, a switch uses MAC addresses to direct traffic only to the port that is
necessary.  Only fancy switches (I.E. NOT the netgear one you have) will
create a "mirror" port that copies all of the traffic from every port onto a
specific port for sniffing/intrusion detection, etc.

What you really needed to buy is a hub. :)  Or you can use some of the
airsnort suite of tools to hijack the default gateway's mac and trick every
machine on the network into sending you it's packets..  But that doesn't
help for traffic between machines on the subnet.


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:01 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] MicroCenter in Duluth



Microcenter in Duluth has a bin of PS2 keyboards
at 1.99 each.  I know this is not much but
it appears that somehow many Sun keyboards fell
in the bin.  Those keyboards are sun specific and do
not have PS2 adapters.  Don't run over each other
racing to get there.

I purchased a generic netgear switch and want to sniff.
If I use a crossover cable and fool the switch in
thinking I'm a hub will it send me all the packets?

Chris
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