"Snooping" can refer to:
Computer science
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Bus sniffing Bus snooping or bus sniffing is a scheme by which a coherency controller (snooper) in a cache (a snoopy cache) monitors or snoops the bus transactions, and its goal is to maintain a cache coherency in distributed shared memory systems. A cache cont ...
, also known as ''bus snooping''
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IGMP snooping
IGMP snooping is the process of listening to Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) network traffic to control delivery of IP multicasts. Network switches with IGMP snooping listen in on the IGMP conversation between hosts and routers and m ...
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DHCP snooping
In computer networking, DHCP snooping is a series of techniques applied to improve the security of a DHCP infrastructure.
DHCP servers allocate IP addresses to clients on a LAN. DHCP snooping can be configured on LAN switches to exclude rogue ...
* and in general listening in to any kind of communication protocol (such as
ARP,
TCP
TCP may refer to:
Science and technology
* Transformer coupled plasma
* Tool Center Point, see Robot end effector
Computing
* Transmission Control Protocol, a fundamental Internet standard
* Telephony control protocol, a Bluetooth communication s ...
and so on)
Statistics
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Data-snooping bias, a concept in statistics
See also
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Snoop (disambiguation)
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Snoopy (disambiguation) Snoopy is a dog in the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz.
Snoopy may also refer to:
* Snoopy (band), Dutch disco duo of the late 1970s
* Snoopy (artist), Quincy Delight Jones III (born 1968), a Swedish-American producer and author
* Sn ...
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Sniffing (disambiguation)
Sniffing can refer to:
* Inhalation
* Sniffing (behavior)
* Sniffing attack
Sniffing attack in context of network security, corresponds to theft or interception of data by capturing the network traffic using a packet sniffer (an application aimed ...
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