How can we achieve our goal?

Most of the network administrators use telnet to login to a cisco machine.

Telnet is a clear-text protocol – so, if you can sniff the packets you can get to know what is other person talking to the machine.

Easy then, I will just sniff the packets from the wire and get into my switch.

Hey, I don’t see any traffic on the wire. What could be the reason?

You are in switched network and switches don’t do any favor to the hackers. They transmit data only between the talking machines.

But this is not fair. They said I am on ethernet. Are they not supposed to use CSMA/CD then?

Ethernet has grown up buddy. It’s ‘switched ethernet’ now.

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