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Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network?
From: Bohdan Tashchuk <tashchuk () easystreet com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:28:45 -0800
> You can plug a mini-hub in line and use that as a tap point to monitor > the stream. Up side is its cheap and easy. Down side is you have to > drop to half duplex. Not a problem in most situations but in some the > drop in performance can be an issue.Don't throw out your old hubs. It's hard to find a 10/100 hub for sale any more. Even the cheap consumer devices are switches. I picked up a $25 hub at Fry's a few weeks ago just in case I ever wanted to casually snoop some traffic. But Fry's is sold out.
The netoptics.com link posted was "priceless". I'm always wary of simple products that are expensive enough to have a request for quote, rather than a price, on their web page.
Current thread:
- What's the best way to wiretap a network? Sean Donelan (Jan 17)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Jared Mauch (Jan 17)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? doug (Jan 17)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Chris Brenton (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Paul Vixie (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Sean Donelan (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Paul Vixie (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Jared Mauch (Jan 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Bohdan Tashchuk (Jan 18)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Eriks Rugelis (Jan 20)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Scott McGrath (Jan 20)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? William Allen Simpson (Jan 20)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 20)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Jan 21)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Daniel Karrenberg (Jan 21)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Roland Perry (Jan 21)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Jan 22)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Roland Perry (Jan 23)
- Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network? Paul Wouters (Jan 21)