Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniff all packets in a subnet

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:36:24 +0200
Tarun Siripurapu wrote:


Hi,


From my machine, is it possible to sniff all network packets at

the network gateway? Is it possible to sniff all packets at my subnet?
That depends on several things. Unless you have access to the backend cabling or want to do very bad things, it won't work IMO.
See: http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup (in general and the Ethernet part in detail) for further info. 

Regards, ULFL