[NBLUG/talk] "Sniffing the Internet"

[Andru Luvisi]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, ME wrote:
[snip]
> At layer 3, you have some switches (I'll ignore) and routers. You can't
> sniffer beyond a router unless you have a presence in the network beyond
> the router to be sniffed. That presence can be willing or unwilling, but a
> presence must exist for sniffing to work beyond a router. (Yes, this
> includes source routed packets where your proxy may be either end.)
[snip]

What about ICMP redirects?

Andru
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