Dave, if you want a 12 port Cisco Catalyst 100 Mbit switch, let me know. I don't know the first thing about configuring a Cisco switch for port mirroring but I do know it is possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af4d_fAkwAY *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 1:52 PM Dave Manginelli <dave.mangine...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- -- 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.
