Sunday 13th April 2003
Sniffer Dogs
After a discussion with a friend, and remembering what a different friend got up to in halls a year ago, I thought I’d have a go at doing some packet sniffing on the home network. I got set back by our having a switch instead of a hub, and though I know what needs to be done to get round it (ARP shenanigans), actually doing so would be to move on from the play into the hard work catagory. If I thought it likely that I would find anything interesting then I would do it, but I’m more likely to just piss my housemates off by cocking it up.
Still, I’ve (re)learned loads of stuff about connections, and I finally understand the difference between IP and ethernet (I knew the difference before, now I understand it). It also gives me a cool way of seeing the http headers for the websites I’m working on. If only I was the gateway for my flat (or if I 0wned it, mwa ha ha ha), then I could could be one step further along the same thing we do every day, Pinky…