Actually, it's not that exciting.  We're trying to get duplex
negotiation to resolve successfully between two different pieces of
WAN equipment.  Putting a dumb hub in the chain between the two pieces
of equipment is the workaround, but we're short one hub.

Thanks for the suggestion, Stephen.  I think I'll try that at home.

Brian

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Stephen Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:37:11AM -0500, Brian Barber wrote:
>> Good morning, all.  I am in desperate need of a 100mbps hub (i.e. not
>> a switch) for work.
>
> I am guessing you need to sniff some network traffic. You can easily
> make a network tap with a linux computer stuffed with network
> cards. Don't give any of the interfaces an ip. Add all the interfaces
> to br0. Sniff on br0.
>
> --
> sg
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