On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 05:17:16PM -0500, Javier Romero wrote:
> Wrong!
>
> One thing is the physic (topologic) and other the logical structure.
> Neither compare with Ethernet. In cable, all information is download
> (from
> Cable Provider) to all modems (house).
>
> IMHO, you must read about Cable again!
>
> Don�t assumpt that you know now.
> Read again, please... =)
>
actually, i think its a pretty safe assumption
While cable modems could be misconfigured to allow this situation
to happen, every cable modem I've worked with (and i've worked with
providers using every major brand out there, com21, motorola,
lancity, tarayon, and numerous rebranded versions) can be configured
to allow only traffic destined for the client pc to pass. The only
way you'd be able to sniff the traffic on the network is to config
the modem yourself (which varies from difficult to impossible for
a customer to do) or put your own hardware on the line (even harder,
and in many cases impossible in a properly configured cable network)
The situation which occured in the article that started this thread
was a result of broadcast windows networking traffic populating
the network neighborhood, most of which were not password protected.
Perhaps you should read again please ;)
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