Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment
James wrote: COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get equivalient functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but and a linux device. I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they are or can be setup as a flat hub. This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and a Linksys WRT54Gl... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment
Randy Barlow randy at electronsweatshop.com writes: I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they are or can be setup as a flat hub. This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and a Linksys WRT54Gl... Yep, that device was on the short list. I have to find out the ethernet chipset it used to determine if they switched (most) likely or not and if they are switched whether one can be setup up to sniff. I'm just not that familiar with the wrt54g other than what I have read casually. Have you set one up to sniff and remotely display the result on a workstaion before? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment
James wrote: Have you set one up to sniff and remotely display the result on a workstaion before? No, I definitely haven't done anything like that. Mine is just a router/WAP/firewall/QoS thing with some fun port forwarding rules. Funny that it's default firmware doesn't let you forward outside port 8080 to an inside 80. I know that the level of mathematical prowess necessary for such a packet transformation is exceedingly amazing, but... OpenWRT is cool :) What I think you could do in OpenWRT is perhaps to set up an IPTables Rule that sends all packets through one of it's 5 ports on the back, and then you could plug a machine in there to log/process it. This is not something I have done, it's just a suggestion for you to ponder. It may or may not be possible, I don't know... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment
James wrote: COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get equivalent functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but and a linux device. I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they are or can be setup as a flat hub. Thanks for your input, Cost is pretty low these days. $300 for 10/100 24 port with vlans and port mirroring. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pwcnt_3424?c=usl=ens=bsdcs=04 Not sure the throughput you're dealing with, but I had issues with anything over 15-20 mb/s being moved down to half duplex. If you're just messing about home or in a low bandwidth office this doesn't matter so much. I've got two 5234's (same thing with GigE and bigger backplane) I'd let go for $500 + shipping if you or anyone else is interested. :-) kashani -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
