If you ever need network sniffing help or expertise, Laura is one of the best in the world. Great in person. Great speaker. I highly recommend any of her books, podcasts, and tutorials. Her web site, ...

The way I understand it, Ethernet was designed so that hosts only "listen" to traffic that is intentionally aimed at them. Malicious users can set their host's connection to promiscuous mode, and ...

The tools known as network sniffers are named after a product called the Sniffer Network Analyzer. Introduced in 1988 by Network General Corp. (now Network Associates Inc.), the Sniffer was one of the ...

Hello world. I've embarked on a bit of a project and have met with good initial success. I've since been bogged down and am looking for a "in" to a good solution.<br><br>My goal is to get DAoC running ...

A protocol analyzer is a software tool that tunes into packets of data as they move across networks. Properly used, it can help demonstrate why secure software is a good idea and can help secure ...

In the previous article, I discussed the installation of three open-source packages on a computer running Linux to capture useful network statistics. Using Linux is economical simply because it can ...

“Promiscuous mode” (you’ve gotta love that nomenclature) is a network interface mode in which the NIC reports every packet that it sees. If you’re using the Wireshark packet sniffer and have it set to ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...