Beginner's Sniffing

[Lyroschen]

Here's a packet sniffing for beginners article.

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2632004,00.html

[LordCrush]

Nice Article, but its only about very basic things.

The link at the end of the text shows a nice overview of TCP/IP
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/tcpjmy.html

and i did not find the Ethereal Packet sniffer in it ;)

http://www.ethereal.com/

[Amadeus]

I appreciate all the information being posted... I wish someone would post about how to decrypt the information we're sniffing :)

[LordCrush]

First you need to know the packet structure to find the payload in the packet ...