On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). > You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a > decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out > through the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other > words, that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine > can see every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-) > > However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the > el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine > certainly don't. You could also do this with a non-switching hub, if you can find one. They would be a whole lot cheaper, I'd imagine, than a managed switch, even used on ebay. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
