Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 admin & root passwords

[jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

"Michael Zimmermann" <zim@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> But don't you think, if one of the hundreds of machines on your
> ISP's subnet is compromised, it would be possible to
> get all the others on the subnet by running a snooper
> on the one which got hacked?

Have you looked at the network structure of an ISP?

They do not have workstations (or whatever) put directly down on the
same subnet and physical segments as their dial-up / xDSL customers.

I.e. you can't start a sniffer or something like that to get data.
 
> Or do you think the normal ISP is checking for promiscuous 
> cards on their subnets? I don't know. Just asking.

You would normally hook up equipment on a switch, which provides a new
physical segment for each connections.

I.e. promiscous NIC's don't have access to any data other than the
data destined for it's own IP.
 

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