Ok, so I can capture a traffic of Host B from Host A in a same network connected with switch by viewing the diagram in the provided link.
Can you please let me know how to do this...like do I need to give the Host B MAC address or IP address in Host A or any thing else...
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Stephen Fisher
<steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:09:08PM +0530, Gopalakrishnan A.N wrote:
> The traffic flows between SPA3102 and other SPA3102 and my computer is
> in the same network... from my computer's wireshark is it possible to
> capture the packets of both the SPA3102 device which is in the same
> network.
Generally, no, because switches do not flood unneeded traffic (that
which is not destined for the machine on that port) out all ports like a
hub does. This page should be of help to you:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet
Along with the main capture setup page:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup
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Thank you with regards,
Gopalakrishnan A.N,