XPost: alt.fan.karl-malden.nose   
      
   On 9 Oct 2006 15:05:52 -0700, "Silicone Spark"   
    bedwet with her weak bladder:   
      
   >   
   >steven wrote:   
   >> Hello,   
   >> I am pretty familiar with packets sniffing/analyzing using   
   >> libpcap-based applications.   
   >> For a certain time now, I have been looking for a device that could be   
   >> physically inserted within a Cat5-based LAN network. This harware   
   >> device would read and log packets between 2 LAN nodes (e.g. a router   
   >> and a desktop station) without being itself a node.  In short, I am   
   >> looking for a small hub-liked device having the capacity to stock   
   >> packets it receives in a HD.   
   >> Any idea how this device is called?   
   >> BR,   
   >> SS   
   >   
   >Sounds like some sort of Ethernet Tap.   
   >Never heard of anything like that, but it sounds pretty cool. Good luck   
   >finding it.   
   >   
   It's called a Protocol Analyzer, you dense twit!   
      
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