whatever happened to just plain old snoop?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Kevin D. Clark
<kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
>
> > "Michael ODonnell" writes:
> > >
> > > I don't know what your situation is but if there's a managed
> > > switch involved I believe that some of them can be rigged to
> > > echo traffic to one or more specified ports for analysis/debug.
> >
> > Mm. Good point. I don't think I have any managed switches on-hand;
> > any recommendations as to what I should get, if I go that route?
>
> The feature you'd want here is commonly called port mirroring or port
> spanning.
>
> More info here:
>
>   http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet
>
>
> I do have a small word of advice:  it is generally useful when
> capturing traffic for analysis to come up with some sort of "capture
> filter" that limits the amount of traffic that you're going to end up
> with.  On a really busy link, this can make it a lot easier to analyze
> the traffic at a later time.
>
> Regards,
>
> --kevin
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