Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The Internet-facing interface is in promiscuous mode with cable
> Internet? That should be interesting.

Not really.  You don't see much more than arp requests.  It's quite
reminiscent of trying to sniff on a switch port (that's not set up for
monitoring of course, just a standard switch port)

It only gets interesting when you poison the arp cache (ala dsniff
http://naughty.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/).  Yes I have done this but
at the time it was a network I managed and I wasn't about to bust
myself ;).  Actually I wanted to see how well it worked -- quite well
actually.  I would strongly advise against doing this on your
cable/dsl connection as it may indeed attract attention.  However if
you manage a switched lan, you may find some educational benefit in
testing it out.

-- 
Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"...and one script to rule them all."

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