Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capturing ATM traffic

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From: tom greaser <tgreaser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Sep 2001 08:45:50 -0400
If any one knows better please tell me im wrong...

If you have a physical link between just the two devices there is no way
(take that with a grain of salt i will explane later) fo you to sniff
that wire.  What you need to do is use your debug tools in your cisco
ios.  This will show you what traffic it sees and what its doing ...



The grain of salt part.. If you have these devices connected between via
a switch you can use the span command to see the traffic...

Since we are talking about traffic I will go off the subject just a
little.  I found a GREAT tool that spoofs the mac address so switch
traffic will be push the traffic to my linux box and my linux box
forwards that to the real destination.. 

these replace the need for admins to have to trace down what switch port
a user is in and use the span command.

http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/

My point is that even though ethereal is a SUPER ... GREAT tool.. That
if you use other great gnu tools with it you just about do anything you
want...


On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 16:34, Raghu Arni wrote:
> I actually have a similar question..I have two cisco routers connected back
> to back via a serial link with FR. This might seem like a silly question (My
> WAN knowlege is poor) but is there a way I can somehow sniff packets on that
> link..?? Just curious..
> 
> thx,
> Arni
> 
> 
> > How would I go about using Ethereal to capture ATM traffic.  For example
> if
> > I had a Cisco router with an ATM interface connected to an ATM switch and
> I
> > wanted to see the traffic between the two.  If I were using a Network
> > General Sniffer of HP's Internet Advisor, I could put their sniffer
> > "in-line" beween the Router port and ATM switch port and capture traffic.
> > How would I go about doing that with Ethereal.  If this is possible, I
> know
> > I would need an ATM NIC card (dual port???).  Where would I go from
> there??
> > Special drivers, etc, etc????
> >
> > Thanks
> > al silverstein
> >
> >
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Tom  Greaser

Ethereal
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Packets are no harder to forge than business cards.