Looking at traffic patterns

Network sniffing can be a huge time-saver. It is more difficult to use remote Windows machines to perform this task for you as the network card needs to be in promiscuous mode, but it can be done. Ideally, you will find a Unix or Linux host that can be turned into a listening station with little to no effort.

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