White hat IT Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 So I Haven't Worked With The Packet Squirrel But From My Understanding It's Just Connecting 2 Ethernet cords together. So It's A Very Dangerous Tool. I Install Cat6 For Avigilon Cameras Internet Phones Etc . I Talked To My Company About A Safe Way To Install The Cables Next Time. The Way We Were Installing It Was Just Move Ceiling Tile Grab The Cat6 Wire Cut It Into 2 pieces and connect the packet squirrel between the client and the switch. But Now I Think I'm Just Over Reacting? I'd Hate To Do More Work Just To Be "Safe" When It's Not A Problem ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixL Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Maybe just make sure your packets are encrypted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 On 8/1/2018 at 3:08 AM, White hat IT said: The Way We Were Installing It Was Just Move Ceiling Tile Grab The Cat6 Wire Cut It Into 2 pieces and connect the packet squirrel between the client and the switch. Was this for your own network or for a client (or multiple clients)? Bear in mind it limits the network to the client and switch to 100 Mbps, down from probably 1 Gbps assumedly, since you're using higher-end cabling. That's 9/10 of your network speed gone just to install a PS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White hat IT Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 5 hours ago, Dave-ee Jones said: Was this for your own network or for a client (or multiple clients)? Bear in mind it limits the network to the client and switch to 100 Mbps, down from probably 1 Gbps assumedly, since you're using higher-end cabling. That's 9/10 of your network speed gone just to install a PS. It Depends Who The Customer Is Usually There From 6-120 PCs APs Network Printers Etc connected to a network switch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 So why are you installing Packet Squirrels in a business environment, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White hat IT Posted August 6, 2018 Author Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/2/2018 at 6:15 PM, Dave-ee Jones said: So why are you installing Packet Squirrels in a business environment, then? I Was Just Giving And Example On How Easy It Would Be For Someone To Install Packet Squirrel Also What If Someone Installs It On A Network Camera Or Printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 10 hours ago, White hat IT said: Also What If Someone Installs It On A Network Camera Or Printer? Then they can sniff the packets going to/from the device. Just like a computer end-device. Depending on how heavily encrypted the camera traffic is you could potentially re-create the feed from the PS. (Psst, @Sebkinne, imagine the PS having a radio so you can send that traffic off and watch the feed remotely...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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