1.I think you nailed it: I am switched, he/she is not (hub).
I just moved myself over to the switch, and didn't give that
a thought.  Many thanks for the tip.

3. Yes, it is legal. And in my opinion, my boss has a very legitimate
reason in this paticular case.

v/r
Mike Starke

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:40:53AM -0700, Adam Muntner wrote:
 dont have time to check out the command line but heres a few things to
 check.
 
 1) are you in a switched environment?  if so, you need to stick the user
 on a hub, and the linux box on a hub.  a switch (unless its a leeto cool
 programmable one) wont echo all data from all ports to all ports.  thats
 what makes it a switch. :)
 
 2) if it's sendmail, just force sendmail to echo all his outgoing mail
 to you.  since it's windows, he won't have his own MTA on his own box.
 
 3) what your boss asked you to do is perfectly legal.  unless express
 notice that email is private from a work email address is given, there
 can be no promise of privacy.  An employer has the legal right to
 examine all employee email.
 
 adam
 
 > Message: 14
 > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:34:02 -0700 (MST)
 > From: Mike Starke <mgcon@neta.com>
 > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
 > Subject: touchy subject -> sniffit
 > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
 > 
 > I know this is a touchy subject for some of you, but I am
 > the sysadmin, and have been asked to provide some info about
 > a user.
 > 
 > I am trying to get sniffit to work, but can't seem to pick up
 > any packets from the Win machines.  I can sniff
 > my own laptop (Linux) with something like:
 > sniffit -p 25 -l 0 -P tcp -b -s 192.168.3.44 -F eth&
 > and grab some info. But the same does not work on a windows
 > machine. I'm looking to grab the mail sent from a PC.
 > 
 > I don't want to begin a long drawn out discussion 'bout privacy,
 > I'm all for it. But I do have a boss, and need to give what he asks
 > for, yet I feel dumbfounded in how.
 > 
 > Mike
 > mgcon@getnet.com
 > http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
 > Phoenix, AZ
 > USA
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