Re: [Fed-Talk] Network sniffing
Re: [Fed-Talk] Network sniffing
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Network sniffing
- From: Brian Raymond <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:59:27 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Network sniffing
I've always had the best luck with Ethereal. One of the best features for me
is it's large number of protocol dissectors.
http://www.ethereal.com
You can install it using Fink http://fink.sf.net.
- Brian
On 10/6/05 6:42 PM, "Tony Greiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've never used it, but check out ettercap... freeware
>
> http://www.securemac.com/macosxettercap.php
>
> Tony Greiner
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>
> On Oct 6, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Joel Rennich wrote:
>
>> On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Pike, Michael (NNMC) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm familiar with Ethereal (coming from the linux world)... I was
>>> hoping
>>> to find a native OS X application... fink sometimes "finks" up other
>>> components we use due to conflicts with certain libs it installs.
>>>
>>
>> Well... tcpdump is native on OSX and that will capture the traffic.
>> You'd want something a bit more suited for looking at it however.
>>
>> As far as native apps goes, Wild Packets makes EtherPeek. I think
>> they've discontinued OS X support, but you could pick it up at a
>> steal b/c of that.
>>
>> Otherwise I keep a Fink .dmg on my drive with ethereal on it and
>> just use that.
>>
>> I think most any other "mac" apps would probably be based on Fink.
>>
>>
>>> iChat reports unencrypted information going through with a warning
>>> dialogue, however, Google tells me that it IS encrypted and it's a
>>> bug
>>> with iChat.
>>>
>>
>> iChat is complaining that the password itself is in cleartext,
>> which it is, it just happens to be wrapped in an SSL connection.
>> Making the unencrypted bit mostly moot.
>>
>> Technically both iChat and Google could be considered correct in
>> what they are saying.
>>
>>
>>> We were
>>> running our own iChat servers, but the jabber implementation is
>>> really
>>> giving us problems. It often spawns off endless loops and causes a
>>> forced shutdown of the process. It also does not remove the XML
>>> related
>>> data in the jabber databases when accounts are removed. So, if
>>> someone
>>> is on my contact list, and they are no longer a user, iChat server
>>> still
>>> lets me believe they are on the system.
>>>
>>
>> If you plan on doing a lot with this, and you don't trust Google
>> not to store this, I'd suggest just building jabberd 2.0 on OSX.
>> The iChat server is a bit toned down, not to mention jabberd 1.x,
>> and simplified from what a jabber server really can do. Frankly I'm
>> a bit surprised that we haven't seen a stand alone version of 2.0
>> released as an OS X package already.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> Consulting Engineer - Apple Enterprise Sales
>> email@hidden
>>
>> Changing the world, one server at a time.
>>
>>
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