Three students, including A, B, and C, share the same apartment. They have been assigned with 3 IP addresses, respectively. However, there is only one Ethernet cable outlet in the apartment. Therefore, they decided to buy a device to connect three computers to the outlet. Suppose none of them can use port mirroring if the device is a switch, please identify all statements that are true below.    Question 11 options:

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Three students, including A, B, and C, share the same apartment. They have been assigned with 3 IP addresses, respectively. However, there is only one Ethernet cable outlet in the apartment. Therefore, they decided to buy a device to connect three computers to the outlet. Suppose none of them can use port mirroring if the device is a switch, please identify all statements that are true below. 

 

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If the device is a hub, A can sniff B's and C's packets since the hub will broadcast all packets to all ports.

 

 If the device is a switch, A cannot sniff B's and C's packets without launching any attack.

 

If the device is a switch, A can sniff B's and C's packets if A can launch ARP spoofing attacks against B and C successfully. 

 

None of above is correct.

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If the device is a hub, A can sniff B's and C's packets since the hub will broadcast all packets to all ports.If the devic is a switch.

 

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