-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Miller Sent: 23 November 2004 19:55 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:47:05PM -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote: > >down the gauntlet for me to get his password. He telnets into his > >home machine from work and I want to capture that, so what I am > >looking for is something that can be run from my machine, listen to > >his here at work and capture his home password without knowing > >explicitly the address of [...] > Ethereal can capture that just fine in promisc mode... But, if it's a switched network, you'll need to actually be somewhere in the path his packets are travelling. (Or somehow convince the switch to send all packets your direction, which may not be trivial.) This is called a SNAP port, so if your switch doesn't support them, then they won't work. -Neil
