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Subject: Re: sniffing packets with an unadressed physical device
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:48:22 +0100
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On 9 Oct 2006 15:05:52 -0700, "Silicone Spark"
<SiliconeSpark@gmail.com> bedwet with her weak bladder:
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>steven wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am pretty familiar with packets sniffing/analyzing using
>> libpcap-based applications.
>> For a certain time now, I have been looking for a device that could be
>> physically inserted within a Cat5-based LAN network. This harware
>> device would read and log packets between 2 LAN nodes (e.g. a router
>> and a desktop station) without being itself a node. In short, I am
>> looking for a small hub-liked device having the capacity to stock
>> packets it receives in a HD.
>> Any idea how this device is called?
>> BR,
>> SS
>
>Sounds like some sort of Ethernet Tap.
>Never heard of anything like that, but it sounds pretty cool. Good luck
>finding it.
>
It's called a Protocol Analyzer, you dense twit!
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