Re: sniffing packets on a switch

["Valerio Bellizzomi" <support () selnet org>]

The "some" problems you are talking about are that since a switch has no
shared medium, with tcpdump you will see only your own traffic and
broadcast traffic, not the traffic of other hosts (except the broadcast).


On 07/03/2003, at 15.54, Scott Borre wrote:

> I am interested in what people recommend using to
> sniff packets on a switch. I have heard that TCPdump
> has some problems doing this. Thank you ahead of the
> time for any assistance.
>
> Scott Borre
>
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