Re: Dual-Homed/Triple-Subnet Bridge Challenge

> About the only thing that the client computer can to to 
> effect what is 
> or is not sent to it (aside from doing some very nasty things 
> with ARP) 
> is to enable Spanning Tree Protocol and mis-configure it and or allow 
> loops in the network.  If you want to have a discussion about 
> STP, just 
> say the word.

ooh, I'll leave that for another day...my aging brain is already
overloaded :)

> In short, they do not.  The Linux (or what ever) networking sniffing 
> utilities only see the traffic that comes to the NIC its 
> self.  That is 
> why if you want to sniff a switched network you either need 
> to put a Hub 
> in-line or use a SPAN / Mirror port on a switch.  This way, all the 
> traffic makes it to the Linux (or what ever) system's NIC in 
> promiscuous 
> mode.

ah yes! I do recall reading something about this in the past.
My neural networks are obviously misconfigured :)

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