Re: [LI] sniffit

[Vimal Mathew <vml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 05:55:59PM +0530, tvs deepak wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me more about sniffets and how it works
 Sniffers read packets not meant for the host running the sniffer.
They work on broadcast media such as Ethernet, satellite connxns ;P
etc. The Ethernet card (usually) is switched to promiscous mode
so that it does not discard packets not meant for it, and the sniffer
opens a raw (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET/PF_PACKET,SOCK_RAW) socket on that
interface.
-
Bye,
--vml,
Model Engg. College, Cochin


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