Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] One NIC on public side

Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 23:05:30 -0500
That's what it was. For some reason, the new system doesn't like the hub and moving the connection to a switch, and using port mirroring is working.



On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:58:59 +0200, Boonie wrote:
> The other option is to attach the hub to the span port and attach the
> 
> monitor devices from there. You allready have the equipment for that.
> 
> This does not interfere with the normal trafic and if your monitoring PC is
> not sending and data (reverse dns queries?) there should also be no
> collisions.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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> 
>> Are you sure you want tu run all traffic through a hub? This might lead to
>> packetloss due to colissions.
>> 
> It's a temporary setup so that we can get a number of services going right.
> So far, we don't see any packet loss or terrible quality loss and we're even
> passing voip calls through the setup.
> We were using a switch with port monitoring but because we had multiple
> devices which needed to monitor the traffic, we ended up using a hub for
> now.
> 
> The setup I'm talking about is...
> 
> WAN-Routers----Hub----Firewall----switches----etc
> 
> The wireshark and other monitoring systems are connected to the Hub.
> 
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