Re: sniffing plaintext protocols

For staters if you just run etheral or ethercap that would show you all the packages going through the network. Now you have to read the difference of this on a switched network verses unswitched. Cain and Abel also proofed worthy to me in the pass
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From: "itsec.info" <itsec.info@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:19:22
To:pen-test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: sniffing plaintext protocols

Hi

The background for the following questions is purely due to feasibiltiy
reasons for pentests and there is no interest in hacking.

I have read many articles about sniffing, spoofing and relaying.
So far I learned that it is possible to connect a host, hostA, between two
existing hosts, host1 and host2, in order to sniff e.g. plaintext protcols
like telnet, pop3, and ftp.

1)
Is this only in a local network possible or also in the Internet?

2)
I would lik to test such a scenario in my private local network in order to
prove myself and my team, that this is really possible.

Can anybody provide me a kind of how-to for this scenario.
I run different linux machines on my local network and on hostA I have various
tools installed like dsniff, hunt, fakerout, P.A.T.H, wireshark, etc.

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Any help is very much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike

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