Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Detecting MASQ

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:48:53 -0500
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:59:41PM +0530, Kiran Kumar M wrote:
> 
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  I want to detect the MASQ or winproxy by using tethereal. Is it possible
>  to detect the packets that are comming from those machines or settings.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Kiran

If you mean that you want to detect packets that passed through
a computer using IP-Masquerade or winproxy, I don't think you can.
These computers are acting as IP routers, but they happen to pass
packets around in a manner different from ordinary IP routers.

--gilbert