I tinkered with this a few years ago, and found that I was able to disconnect one TX wire, but not the other one. Having just one wire, the hub kept a link, kept sending me data, but anything I sent out didn't go anywhere. It might have been specific to whatever combination of hub/network card I was using, YMMV... Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] My mailer seems to think that "Burgess, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Subject: RE: NICs and Protocols > > Thanks to everyone for their input, I guess I feel a little bit better, >I'll just have to watch that box fairly closely. > > BTW, has anyone ACTUALLY made a cable with the TX wire snipped so that the >promiscuous NIC just listens? Does it work? - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
