[Click] Etherswitch with listen port

Bart Braem bart.braem at ua.ac.be
Thu Dec 15 12:46:08 EST 2005


On Thursday 15 December 2005 15:33, Beyers Cronje wrote:
> Great stuff, this similar to Cisco's SPAN port? Ie all packets get copied
> to the listening port for sniffing etc?

It certainly is. It allows you to connect an arbitrary number of elements to 
the switch and sniff all traffic that passes by.

Bart
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