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[Phillip Powell]

Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> John Lacey wrote:
>
>> Mitch Pirtle wrote:
>>
>>> The swiss-army knife of scanners seems to be NMAP, with Nessus good 
>>> for purty reports and ethereal for snooping.  My favorite is 
>>> ettercap, an evil tool that enables you to poison a switch, 
>>> therefore seeing the rest of the traffic on that segment (that you 
>>> weren't supposed to see).  I got a great security story about that 
>>> if anyone is interested off-line.  ;)
>>>
>> ahh... poisoning the switch's ARP cache... now I see
>
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>
> Yep, and it is pretty rude as the only way to returnthe network to 
> normal operations is to reset the switch.  Only use in emergency!
>
> -- Mitch
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I am getting the impression that the reason for my "outside status" from 
an e-psychological approach comes from the fact that, from what I can 
tell of your postings here, you guys are PHP developers with extensive 
networking and engineering backgrounds for large public sectors..

I happen to be a PHP/ASP/TCL/Javascript web application developer with 
no networking and engineering background for small private and 
governmental sectors.. no matter 98% of what you all talk about projects 
so far over my head it orbits Titan!

But if anything, I do know that *nix, though currently more airtight 
against the wave of viral assaults than M$ solutions, is not fully 
accepted (but getting there) in the federal universe.

Phil

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