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 >
