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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1995: Re: sniffers

Re: sniffers

Patrick Horgan (patrickoes.amdahl.com)
Mon, 1 May 1995 08:57:09 +0800 

> 
> These are all good ideas, however many sniffers are not Unix systems that
> can be logged into and examined.  I have worked with DOS based sniffers
> (Network General Sniffer, Excelan, HP, etc) that are far superior to suns 
> (as sniffers/protocol analayzers) and I doubt that they are easily detectable 
> even with their transmit lead intact.

I don't think the machine you run sniffer software on could make it better
or worse, they all get the same packets;)

Patrick
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