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> switches are dirt cheap so no reason for hubs Hubs are nice to packet-capture from a small device without a managed switch in between, so it's a bit of a bum
by jallmann 13y ago
> switches are dirt cheap so no reason for hubs
Hubs are nice to packet-capture from a small device without a managed switch in between, so it's a bit of a bummer that they're hard to find these days.
- jacquesm 13y agoYes, that's a good trick. And splicing the RX pair to two different cards only works in rare cases, usually you have to lock the ports to a certain rate/duplex mode.
- jcr 13y agoIf you value your time, and hair, the best answer is to just buy a good network tap. http://www.networktaps.com/ http://www.networktaps.com/
- ghshephard 13y agoMost cheap switches these days will let you do port mirroring - that is, taking one or more ports, and "mirroring" the data into another "Mirror Port" (which you can then run wireshark against)