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Re: RE: detecting a sniffer remotely


From: tschroed () acm org (Trevor Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:46:51 -0500 (CDT)



On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Hunt, Charles wrote:

Does anyone knows if it's possible to detect remotely a sniffing host
(specially whithout knowing its IP or MAC address.

I grabbed the L0pht's AntiSniff for UNIX and it worked reasonably well.  Of
course, that was against a slow box, so the PING variance test worked like
a charm.

Of course, there's also AntiSniff for Windows with a spiffy interface, yada
yada yad.  But who cares? :)
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