"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. This schem ...
, 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
* and in general listening in to any kind of communication protocol (such as
ARP,
TCP 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)
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Sniffing (disambiguation)
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