The packets have the thinest of thing wrapper around them in that they are encapsulated inside the pppoe packet's data section. Other than that there isnt anything for a decent and free packet sniffer like ethereal won't cut through in a second. I just switched back over to pppoe for a minute to try it and had no problem at all sniffing all of my email going across the link via a passive promiscuous sniffer.
Dave
At 11:09 AM 01/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> David Berndt
> Eje, I would ussually agree with you there but there are approximately 0 > bb routers that do encrypted pppoe, sure some of them do secure mschapv2 > authentication but none of them (excluding snapgear and draytek possibly) > do encrypted pppoe. The point of the original post was to see if an > encrypted tunnel could be created to help with security or atleast with > the users feeling of "security".
Uhhhh.... I always thought PPOE included some (thin?) form of security that would prevent the casual sniffer from seeing plain text flying around. Does it provide anything at all for encrypting the connection, or is it just a neat way to authenticate legit users?
Tim Foster www.AledoBroadBand.com Aledo's only high-speed ISP
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