Re: very low cost ethernet hub with monitor port?

In article <1178025522.602395.251800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
km@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <km@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to use an ethernet hub, and be able to "snoop" the traffic on
one of its ports. This used to be trivial before all hubs were really
switches.

Its really amazing how cheap a desktop mulitport 100mbit switch is.
But I don't know of one that will let me snoop traffic for debugging.

We do have an "expensive" managed HP rack mount switch which lets you
designate one port to mirror the traffic on a designated set of other
ports. However, for the desktop application, I don't need any of the
other "managed" features, or even the flexibility of that mirroring,
and want something much less expensive.

Actually, I would be happy with a physical "1 to 2" port dongle, that
I could plug into an existing port and use to monitor the traffic on
that port.



Look on ebay for a 4 port hub. That's where I got mine.

I've heard that vendors have been knwon to use the words
interchangable and an Ebay sellor is likely to miss-describe the item,
so it's kind of a crapshoot. They will be *very* cheap, so yo might
have to buy a couple.

The dongle won't work.


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