Re: Sniffer Detection

Arve Kjoelen (akjoele@ee.siue.edu)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:52:40 -0600

> >>What about sniffing inside a firewall.  Is there any way yet of possibly detecting a
sniffer?
>
> I participated in a study of this sometime back.  Summary, not very likely.
<snip>

Unless, of course, the network admin has access to all machines within the
firewall and (s)he can get the NIC to report that it is in promiscuous
mode.

-Arve.


Arve Kjoelen
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, IL 62026
akjoele@ee.siue.edu