In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> As far as I know, there is no way the IS guys can stop me from doing a dump
>> of packets to and from my machine!!! Am I mistaken?
> It depends upon whether your box is connected to a hub or a switch. If
> it's a switch, your box should only see its own traffic, not that of
> other boxes.
And it depends on the setting on the PROMISC flag of the ethernet card. (Can
be toggled with the -p option of tcpdump). And it depends on ip-filter rules
of your tcpdumping host.
Greetings
Bernd
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