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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] sniffing in a switched network - arp spoofing using etterca

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:24:35 -0500
ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> look,   arpspoofing is potentially VERY disrupting to the network.  DO
> NOT, please, use it unless it is a non-business critical private
> network.

Even if your network isn't business-critical it's possible to have a
fully managed, port-mirroring switch on a shoestring budget.  At the
time of this writing the following switch is US$24.99 on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=64076&item=5782226213&rd=1