Sniffing gigabit ethernet? 1000baseT LAN taps?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

"Michael ODonnell" <mod.gnhlug at b0rken.com> writes:
>
> I don't know what your situation is but if there's a managed
> switch involved I believe that some of them can be rigged to
> echo traffic to one or more specified ports for analysis/debug.

Mm. Good point. I don't think I have any managed switches on-hand;
any recommendations as to what I should get, if I go that route?

> Or if your problem isn't specific to GigE (and you can tolerate
> 10baseT speeds) I have a little NetGear hub you might be able
> to hook all three lines into for eavesdropping...

I sort-of miss hubs... :)

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