sending MAC packets --- again

[Chuck Swiger]

Daniel Valencia wrote:
> About my previous message, I think that the problem is
> that i'm using a switch, where I thought I had a
> hub... If I'm sending ethernet broadcast packets...
> will they be forwarded to all the ports of a switch??

Broadcast packets will go to all the ports on a switch.  They'd have to, or 
else ARP and IP conflict detection wouldn't work.  Nevertheless, your packet 
capturing experience will be happier if you use a hub, or else configure the 
switches' "monitor port" to be the port the sniffing box is listening on, 
assuming your switch supports this capability.

-- 
-Chuck