Ever Immed the screenames you find in your packet captures?

[acemcmac]

[acemcmac's alternate S/N]: I know this is a long shot, but do you live in <name of my apartment complex> or am I I'mming the wrong person
[some girl]: i think you're IMing the wrong person
[some girl]: who is this?
[acemcmac's alternate S/N]: my bad
[acemcmac's alternate S/N]: it's a long story
[acemcmac's alternate S/N]: you don't want me to get into it
[some girl]: ok then
[acemcmac's alternate S/N]: sorry to bother you
[some girl] signed off at 7:49:03 PM. I blocked her

non technical expl:

I am intercepting traffic fron the network (read: not mine) and IM'ing the screenames I'm finding in the AIM blocks. I have at least 4 different peoples' buddy lists and mabye 100 or so names outside of that....

oh, and I'm only imming girl names <shrug>

 

[revnja]

Nope.

 

[acemcmac]

so I'm the only one?

 

[mugs]

Do you share a network with your apartment building?

 

[neutralizer]

What packet captures?

 

[Anubis]

packet captures?

 

[iamsomeguy]

what are you using to do packet caps ?

 

[DAGTA]

Do you normally spend time packet capturing and reviewing?

 

[yobarman]

The hell is a packet capture?

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: mugs
Do you share a network with your apartment building?

it's my campuses network. Performance is so bad (25-33% packet loss on a good day) that it's damn near useless.... I would normally be on comcast, but I can't afford it right now. Network administration told me if I got a top talker's report for my segment that they'd ban the top 5 and see if that made things better :roll:

Anyhow, while skimming through the traffic, I've been picking up a lot of AIM stuff and I got nosy

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: yobarman
The hell is a packet capture?

It's a recording and analysis of network traffic

 

[Nikamichi]

Lame ass convo.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Anubis
packet captures?

????????????????

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: iamsomeguy
what are you using to do packet caps ?

Ethereal is free. There are better (but pirated) alternatives... but they are primarily better with their on the fly-filtering, sorting and traffic analysis parts.... but etheral will do the job for just capturing....

 

[gar3555]

nvm...shouldn't put tools in the hands of tools

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: gar3555
nvm...shouldn't put tools in the hands of tools

:evil: you're so mean

 

[Reel]

What university is this that still runs hubs instead of switches? With the price drops in switching devices, I am surprised anyone would not have replaced their hubs by now.

 

[gar3555]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: gar3555
nvm...shouldn't put tools in the hands of tools

:evil: you're so mean

yeah...I had mentioned the name of some utils...much as you did...but my above statement stands as a smarter response than giving irresponsible people tools like that

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: mugs
Do you share a network with your apartment building?

it's my campuses network. Performance is so bad (25-33% packet loss on a good day) that it's damn near useless.... I would normally be on comcast, but I can't afford it right now. Network administration told me if I got a top talker's report for my segment that they'd ban the top 5 and see if that made things better :roll:

Anyhow, while skimming through the traffic, I've been picking up a lot of AIM stuff and I got nosy

Maybe they should just block P2P programs and newsgroups... or figure out who's using them and ban those people instead of having you do their job.

 

[Sphexi]

My school ran CAT5 into the rooms, then split half the wires off to phone lines and half to the data system. You couldn't get higher than about 10mbps or so, it was ridiculous. Hell, our school only had ONE T-1 for the entire residential part of campus, after I graduated they changed it to 3 bound together, I hear it's nice now

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
My school ran CAT5 into the rooms, then split half the wires off to phone lines and half to the data system. You couldn't get higher than about 10mbps or so, it was ridiculous. Hell, our school only had ONE T-1 for the entire residential part of campus, after I graduated they changed it to 3 bound together, I hear it's nice now

OMG YOU POOR THING 10 Mbps! How many students on that T1?

 

[Bootprint]

Need that program that will reconstruct the pictures it sees over network traffic. I think it was created to sniff Wifi.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Reel
What university is this that still runs hubs instead of switches? With the price drops in switching devices, I am surprised anyone would not have replaced their hubs by now.

No kidding! Hubs, jeez... I don't even know anyone who still uses them for home networking...

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: Reel
What university is this that still runs hubs instead of switches? With the price drops in switching devices, I am surprised anyone would not have replaced their hubs by now.

I know these are HP switches, infact, the switches are less than a year old.. this building didnt even exist until november 04.... but for some reason, I can still gather a lot of network traffic...