[geeks] Network software pointer

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:32:42PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>You left out 'ignorance of available tools' - I have never been interested in
>this level of network debugging before, and I never paid attention to the
>tools.
>Wireshark looks good, but I may have to dig out a hub to be able to see the
>traffic from my Roku - seems like the easiest way to literally see what's
>going in/out of the appliance...

Wireshark is definitely the way to go.  It's our #1 go-to tool for
situations like what you describe.  "Okay, span that switch port, throw a
laptop with Wireshark on it up there.."

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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