Re: [Ethereal-users] Traffic not expected on a switch port

[Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

R. Benjamin Kessler wrote:

> There are a couple of reasons a switch will "flood" TCP traffic out -
> generally they're not good...
>
> 1 - Someone is running dsniff - probably not likely since you’re not seeing
> all other traffic on the switch; you'd probably notice the slowdown in
> traffic as well.
>
>  
I don't agree. Dsniff is a sniffer, it sniffs and doesn't do anything to
the switch. Possibly you're speaking of macof or arpspoof (included in
dsniff).





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