Who said anything about a sniffer? Besides, you don't run a sniffer to find out what ports are open on a firewall, you run a port scanner on a machine in that case. Sniffers are for seeing what type of traffic is passing by an interface... and if you're on a switched network, that doesn't give you much ;)
If he can use a web browser or an FTP client, he wouldn't have to run a sniffer/scanner anyway, he would know that 80/21/20 are open. There is the possibility of them watching traffic with snort of other IDS for fingerprinting of the type of traffic, which if that is the case, if he can establish a SSH connection and can encrypt that traffic so they don't know what he has coming/going out on that port. BTW, I live and work in DC for the Government, I think I know a little bit about how they work ;) _____________________________________ Julian Zottl Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,The Hardware List <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:56:12 -0700 >On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:49:01 -0500, Julian Zottl ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Find out what ports your wirewall does allow and then setup VNC on that >> port. > >It's not really that easy - the gov't doesn't really like people >running sniffers on a military network. They tend to be quite harsh >:) > > >-- >Brian >
