Today, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> You also mentioned a switch. Be aware that if the workstation you are
> trying to debug and the machine running the packet sniffer are not in the same
> ethernet (as will be the case with most switch configurations), you'll never
> see the traffic you are trying to monitor. The switch knows the traffic
> doesn't need to go to your sniffer, and won't send it on that port.
True, except that better switches will let you mirror a port, so that you
can see the traffic on a sniffer.
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