[geeks] Network software pointer

[Lionel Peterson]

Thanks, but I already have a couple 10/100 hubs taking up basement space. It
would be nice to put one to use before they get recycled. ;^)

Lionel

On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Bertrand Hutin <bhutin at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Instead of a hub, you may build a spying ethernet cable, duplicating the
> receiving pins (3&6)  to 2 RJ45 sockets
> the side connected to the spying
> machine should not have the transmit pins (1&2) connected
> I may have a picture
> somewhere...
>
>
>
>
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> Lundi 2 juillet 2012 4h32
>> Objet : Re: [geeks] Network software pointer
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> Lionel
>>
>> On Jul 1,
> 2012, at 8:20 PM, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
>>
>>> "tcpdump -w"
> seems so obvious to me I can only assume there's some
>>> reason it's not
> suitable for you.  But I don't see any such reason in
>>> your message
> (possibly my fault, possibly not), so I have to ask:
>>> what's wrong with it?
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