Project Title:
    Managerable 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Tap Device

Abstract:
    The need for listen-only Ethernet stems from the practices of ``packet
    sniffing, or passivley recording all the data-traffic passing through a
    specific point on a network. Most good network administrators do some form of
    packet sniffing regularly for the multiple purposes, such as intrusion
    detection, traffic analysis, password auditing and bandwidth analysis.
    All these activities provide the administrator with a wealth of useful
    information, however should a computer containing such information be
    compromised by an attacker, this same information will be invaluable to that
    attacker's effort to further intrude on the network. The most common solution
    to this problem is to deply these monitoring systems in listen-only mode: they
    have the ability to remotely capture traffic, but cannot send traffic of their
    own.

    Due to the nature of software, it will always be vulnerable, in one way or
    another to attacks or configuration problems. Since hardware is much more
    difficult to affect over the internet/network, this project will turn a
    computers two-way connnection to a network into a recieve only connection
    using hardware.

Faculty advisor(s):
    Shawki Areibi

Students:
 Dan Bergeron
 Dave Rule
 Matthyw Thomas
 Tom Wu