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Packet sniffing is essentially eavesdropping on a network interface.
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Packet sniffing is essentially eavesdropping on a network interface usually set to promiscuous mode.
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Packet sniffing is also used in conjuction with [[ARP]] [[spoofing]] to perform [[MITM]] attacks.
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See also [[tcpdump]], [[ethereal]] and [[dsniff]].
  
see also [[tcpdump]]
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[[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]

Latest revision as of 15:16, 15 June 2006

Packet sniffing is essentially eavesdropping on a network interface usually set to promiscuous mode. Packet sniffing is also used in conjuction with ARP spoofing to perform MITM attacks.

See also tcpdump, ethereal and dsniff.

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