Recording traffic (headers) could easily exceed the write capability of the
media.

On Nov 13, 2017 11:28 AM, "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a voip  pbx system issue im going to have to drop a long term
> packet sniffer onto the network to catch an issue that only happens like
> once in a month. So thats going to be alot of traffic (we have to capture
> everything to see if the issue has to do with other network traffic, so I
> cant even filter it out.
> I was thinking about making a pi a sniffer and just hang a  usb drive off
> of it for the archive.
>
> I dont see running a sniffer would be all that great a resource drain.
>
> Any reason this would be a bad idea, i could see it being a good tool to
> keep in our toolset. I just envision a little binder full of SD cards with
> purpose builds and a handful of pis for a handy toolbox
>

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