I believe you are correct.  I misunderstood.  Although I've connected a
laptop to a monitor (span) port before without using the inpkts command, and
I was able to use the laptop on the network as well as hear any traffic from
the other port(s).

Mike W.

Patrick Ramsey wrote:
> 
> I'm not totally positive because I have never used the inpkts
> switch on a monitor command...but I think he might have been
> referring to the sniffer being able to send packets out... (say
> you are using a sniffer, not in promiscuous mode, and you want
> to be able to do reverse lookups on ip addresses sniffed)  good
> theory?   :)



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