Re: sniffers

[ch11mh () surrey ac uk (Mr Martin J Hargreaves)]

On Mon, 1 May 1995, Jas wrote:

> Asriel DeCatte wrote this...
>
> > Look for /dev/nit (Sun's network interface tap, a device that allows
> > the system direct raw access to a network) if you have a Sun. I
> > don't know what the correspondents to the NIT are on other systems
> > (can anyone elucidate on this topic? 

        I believe it is /dev/eth? where eth0 is the first card, eth1 the 
next, etc. under Linux. tcpdump certainly uses /dev/eth0 on my box.

        Regards,

                M.

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