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Doctor John wrote:
> Francois Labreque wrote:
>> Be sure to put a cross-over cable between the hub and the switch!
>>
>> This being said, unless Andrew doesn't care about his job, I wouldn't
>> recommend playing around with the network like that.
>>
>> Problem 1: Both the switch and router are probably set to full
>> duplex. If the sniffer or hub sends packets, it may cause
>> collisions that would look very suspicious on a full duplex link (I'm
>> assuming that one of the reasons to go to Cisco hardware 2 years ago
>> was for remote management)
>>
> IIRC it is possible to sniff invisibly (not a pun). Somewhere at home I
> have the Snort Cookbook and I'm sure it has a description of how to do
> it. I'll post here if I ever find it amongst the couple of thousand
> books we have at home.
>
> John
http://www.snort.org/docs/tap/
Not quite what I was looking for, but this might work
John
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