On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fooler: yes 2 nic's will work as a bridge. > > but the advantage of the tap in the URL is that even if the sniffer > box goes down, connectivity is unaffected.
yup thats true.. another advantage of a bridge aside from sniffing, you can apply a firewall rules and traffic shaping invisible to them... just add a third nic with an ip address for remote access... > actually at work what is recommended is the NetOptics line. $1000 for > the copper (10/100/1000baseT) version. i just can't get my hands on > one, no ASEAN distributor... you can ask oracle usa to purchase it for you and send it to the philippines :-> but if your purpose is to sniff packets for legal purposes in a cheapest way.. you can ask your network administrator to assign one port of your switch to mirror another port that you wanted to sniff it... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
