Re: (How) Does AntiSniff do what is claimed?

[tschroed () ACM ORG (Trevor Schroeder)]

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jon Marler wrote:

> All you would need to do to prevent detection is cut the send pair on your
> Ethernet connection.  That would make it completely passive.  You could
> even do it as simple as a cable with only 1 pair.

That's what I thought initially.  As someone was kind enough to point out,
the Tx is also carrying your linkbeat.  Without it, the hub's not going to
be sending you traffic.  That's why I had to go with AUI, you have the
opportunity to cut the data while leaving the control signals intact.
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