would rpcap help? On Nov 13, 2007 7:21 AM, Gary Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2007 at 12:00, Andreas Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the two switches are not forwarding packets to your PC as the > > destination of the packets are not meant to receive it > > You need to do the tracing on the WRTG54G itself (if it runs some > > linux for example) or it should forward packets. > > I believe it is running a linux OS, but I don't know of any way to change > its > programming to tell it to forward the packets. Even if I dug through the > source (which is available on the Linksys site!), I couldn't change the > code in > the router. > > It has a Port Forwarding feature, but I think that's only to forward > specific > ports from the outside (internet) to an IP on the LAN. I could tell it to > forward > port 80 traffic to my PC, but I think that would only forward incoming > port-80 > requests from outside, not the port-80 traffic from my son's laptop. > > (User manual, GPL source, etc are all available at > http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C2&childpagename > =US%2FLayout&cid=1166859837401&packedargs=sku%3DWRT54G&page > name=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=3740137401B01&displa > ypage=download#versiondetail > ) > > > I dont think even without the two switches you will see the packets as > > they come/go from DSL and WLAN. So the WRT will not forward it to you > > because it knows (or thinks) you are not looking for those packets. > > What about computers that are connected directly to the WRT's ports, with > no switches in the way? Would they see the packets, or would the WRT > still > not forward the packets to those ports because they aren't the target of > the > packets? > > If none of those tricks work, then I guess the only way to do this is to > run > Wireshark on my son's laptop. Not the greatest solution. Ohwell.... > > Thanks, > Gary > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > Wireshark-users@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users >
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