Questions tagged [promiscious]

What is the advantage(s) (besides the possibility to alter network traffic) of using MITM techniques over just sniffing in promiscuous mode?

I am a student trying to demonstrate an ARP spoofing attack. To test whether my attack was working I decided to use wireshark to sniff the packets on the attacking machine. At first I thought I was able to intercept traffic with my ARP spoofed…

in my home network my own PC is connected with a wire to the router. I want to do some analysis on the packets so I got an old laptop and tried to sniff my PC packets with the laptop (that is connected on WiFi). Unfortunately I couldn't see my PC…

Many attacks I was reading about require the NIC on the attackers laptop to be in promiscuous mode, and in fact this can be detected, for example with this NSE script for NMAP: https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/sniffer-detect.html So this script…