Yes, that's what I want to do, Howard. I can monitor the traffic if it hits my NIC but right now my entire network is switched so no traffic goes to the machine I would monitor from.
When I wrote the message I didn't think I had any Ethernet HUBS (as opposed to switches) still lying around but I've just come from digging through some dusty old storage boxes and I came up with a couple 10Mb switches. Unfortunately they were somehow separated from their wall warts so I still have to dig up a couple of those. Question: I know I said I could use a 10Mb switch but it occurs to me that everything in my network is currently 100/1000 Base T. Will devices that claim 100/1000 Base T compatibility talk to 10Mb devices? If not, I would have to come up with a real Rube Goldberg setup to make it all work (I do have at least one old 10/100 switch but I would need two and the setup would get crazy). Finally, I know an option would be to throw a second NIC in the monitoring machine and use it as a gateway so it could monitor the traffic. That seemed like a lot of work before but right now it seems pretty attractive! On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > Run wireshark and watch the traffic? > > Howard > > On 06/29/2018 11:49 AM, Dave Manginelli wrote: > >> My current gig involves testing an IOT device that likes to "phone home" >> and it would be much easier for me if I could easily monitor the traffic. >> Does anybody have a managed switch they can loan (or give!) me? >> >> An old 10Mb switch is OK if I can just set it to echo the traffic to more >> than one output port. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group >> /nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto: >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group > /nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
