Security Basics: Re: Network sniffing on the wire - managed switches

[ArcSighter Elite <arcsighter () gmail com>]

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Tom Yarrish wrote:
> Hey all,
> This may come off as somewhat of a newbie question, but it's one I've
> been curious about.
>
> When you are doing any sort of pen testing or sniffing on the wire, how
> do you handle a managed switch scenario.  If you're connected to a
> switch on one port, how can you monitor the traffic on the the other
> ports if you're not in a monitor mode?  I've never understood how you
> can sniff traffic other than the traffic from your machine to a
> destination.
>
> Thanks ahead of time,
> Tom
Man in the Middle: ARP/DNS/CACHE poisoning...
And yes, IMHO was a newbie question.

Sincerely.

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