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- Remove nowadays defunct www.infoworld.com link (missed in r426160) Submitted by: Royce Williams
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Passive OS fingerprinting is based on information coming from a remote host
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when it establishes a connection to our system. Captured packets contain
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enough information to identify the operating system. In contrast to active
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scanners such as nmap and QueSO, p0f does not send anything to the host
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being identified.
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For more information, refer to Lance Spitzner's old paper about passive OS
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fingerprinting: http://old.honeynet.org/papers/finger/.
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Use of this program requires read access to the packet filtering device,
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typically /dev/bpf0. Granting such access allows the users who have it to
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put your Ethernet device into promiscuous mode and sniff your network.
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Running p0f with no options will cause it to analyze packets intended for
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other hosts.
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WWW: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f3/
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