full-disclosure - Caching a sniffer

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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: Caching a sniffer

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Patricio Bruna V. wrote:

> How can i know if there a sniffer running in my network?

When you wake up one day to find that you're 0wn3d :-)

Seriously, about the only way I can think of to detect a sniffer with
its transmit leads cut is with a Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) and
look for an unexplained impedance bump.

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Dave Horsfall  DTM  VK2KFU                         Loyal Unix user since 1975
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